Is there a way to scan documents in Airtable?

Hey ​@alfredoigmen!

It is not possible to get scanning done on Airtable (if by scanning you mean a neat pdf out of photos as you would get using CamScanner or similar apps).

However you can:
1. Use Airtable’s native AI fields to get structured data out of attachments. More info here. You can reference an Attachment field on your prompt, and Airtable will take care of analyzing it.

2. Build your own automation to get a scanned version of a photo via API using third party automation tools such as Zapier, Make, or n8n (more on these automation tools here). I did not work with these kind of services for generating scanned pdfs via API, but you can find multiple of them with a quick google search.

Hope this helps.

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

I didn’t know that it was possible to make that with AI. Thanks. 

Hey ​@alfredoigmen, this is also possible with Data Fetcher.

Tutorial: Extract Data from PDFs to Airtable using OpenAI

It’s an Airtable extension so works right inside Airtable! More no-code Airtable integations.