Extract and summarize text from images uploaded to Google Drive

Watches a Google Drive folder for new images, extracts the text, summarizes it with AI, and logs the result.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsEmail AutomationDocument Processing & OCRSpreadsheet & Database OpsReporting & AnalyticsFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveOCR.spaceOpenRouterGoogle SheetsGmail

The problem it solves

Your team scans or photographs documents, notes, or book pages, but someone still has to sit down and manually type up or summarize what's in each image. That backlog of unread scans keeps growing while nobody has time to go through it.

Who it fits

Useful for teams or educators who regularly digitize scanned documents, notes, or printed pages.

How it works

  1. A new image is uploaded to a watched Google Drive folder
  2. The image is downloaded and sent to OCR.space to extract the text
  3. The extracted text is cleaned and checked to make sure it isn't empty
  4. AI generates a short summary of the text
  5. The file name, summary, and date are logged in Google Sheets, and a completion email is sent
What you get

Scanned pages you can finally search and skim

Every scanned page gets turned into searchable text and a quick summary you can review in seconds.

What you get

A logged summary of every scanned document plus an email confirming it's been processed.

What you need

A Google Drive account, a Google Sheets account, a Gmail account, an OCR.space API key, and an OpenRouter API key.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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