Use BPA Workflow to scan delivery notes

Hi ​@Link,

As far as I know, BPA Workflows do not provide built-in OCR or PDF parsing capabilities that would allow a workflow to directly read and extract data from an uploaded PDF delivery note.

If your goal is to automate the Scan Delivery Note process, you would typically need an external service to perform the document recognition and data extraction. For example, the PDF could be processed by a document capture/OCR solution, and the extracted data could then be passed back to IFS through available APIs or workflow activities.

A few questions that may help determine the best approach:

• Is the delivery note a text-based PDF or a scanned image PDF?
• Are you trying to upload the PDF to the standard Scan Delivery Note assistant and have it processed automatically, or are you looking to bypass the assistant completely and create the receipt/dispatch information through APIs?

Hi ​@ashen_malaka_ranasinghe 

thank you for your feedback. I had a feeling that I would need an external application.

We receive the delivery note via email in PDF format.

Ideally, I would like to upload the PDF to the standard assistant automatically, but using an API would also be interesting.

Thank you.

​@Link 

I am from a partner in the UK and I am currently working on a solution that does exactly what you are looking to do along with several other features.

Cheers

Lee 

Wyre Solutions

Hello ​@WyrLeeLeW 

sounds great.

What kind of solution is that? Is it a workflow or a modification?

Hi ​@Link 

Its going to be an external SaaS tool that interfaces with IFS via the RESTApi layer

We are currently testing the platform and so far so good 😁

Cheers 
Lee
Wyre Solutions

Hi ​@WyrLeeLeW 

very nice. I thought you were using AI functions.

So, you're using external tools. I see. 👍🏽