--- title: "Power Automate extract text from image | Nutrient" canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-converter/power-automate/extraction/extract-text-from-image/" md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-converter/power-automate/extraction/extract-text-from-image.md" last_updated: "2026-05-21T20:35:00.945Z" description: "Learn to extract text from images using Power Automate and the Muhimbi OCR action. Update SharePoint list columns with extracted text from invoices or templates." --- # Extract text from images using Power Automate In this guide, you’ll learn how to OCR and extract text from an image using Power Automate. It makes use of the Nutrient **Extract text using OCR** action to extract text from an image-based file and write the extracted text to a SharePoint list column. This example can be used to retrieve invoice numbers or other textual content from documents that conform to a particular template. ## Prerequisites Before building the workflow, ensure all prerequisites are in place. You should have some knowledge of building workflows using Power Automate. Additionally, you’ll need: - A full or trial subscription for [Nutrient Document Converter for Power Automate](https://www.nutrient.io/low-code/integrations/power-automate). - Appropriate privileges to create flows. ## Extracting text from images and scans and converting to searchable PDFs using Power Automate This example shows how to create a Power Automate (Flow) solution to extract text from image-based SharePoint content and update a field with the extracted text. From a high level, the flow will look like what’s shown in the image below.![High-level overview](@/assets/guides/muhimbi/pdf-converter/power-automate/extract-text-from-image-1.jpg) ### 1: Creating a new flow Create a new flow and use the **When a file is created (properties only)** SharePoint Online trigger. Fill out the **Site Address** and **Folder** fields accordingly.![Create a new flow](@/assets/guides/muhimbi/pdf-converter/power-automate/extract-text-from-image-2.jpg) ### 2: Getting the file content Insert a **Get file content** action and fill it out as shown in the screenshot below.![Get the file content](@/assets/guides/muhimbi/pdf-converter/power-automate/extract-text-from-image-3.jpg) In the **Site Address** field, specify the same address used in the trigger. In the **File Identifier** field, choose the **Identifier** option inside the **When a file is created in folder** trigger. ### 3: Extracting text using OCR Insert the **Extract text using OCR** action and fill it in as shown in the screenshot below.![Extract text using OCR](@/assets/guides/muhimbi/pdf-converter/power-automate/extract-text-from-image-4.jpg) - In the **Source file name** field, select the **Name** returned by the trigger. - In the **Source file content** field, select the **Body** returned by the **Get file content** action. - In the **Language** field, set the language the source document is written in. It defaults to **English**, but there’s support for Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. - In the **X Coordinate**, **Y Coordinate**, **Width**, and **Height** fields, specify the exact area to extract text from. The unit of measure (UOM) is 1/72 of an inch. ### 4: Updating the file properties Insert the **Update file properties** action to write the converted file back to SharePoint Online or your desired destination.![Extract text using OCR](@/assets/guides/muhimbi/pdf-converter/power-automate/extract-text-from-image-5.jpg) Once the text has been extracted, you’ll want to update a column in the source file. To facilitate this, there’s a column named **convertedtext** in the library. - Specify the same site address and library used in the trigger. - In the **Id** field, specify the **ID** returned by the trigger. - Specify **Out text**, as returned by the **Extract text using OCR** action, in the **Extract Output** field. ### 5: Publishing the workflow Publish the workflow and create a TIFF file in the specified document library. After a few seconds, the flow will trigger, and the **convertedtext** column in the document library will be updated. --- ## Related pages - [Extract text from PDFs using Power Automate](/guides/document-converter/power-automate/extraction/extract-text-from-pdf-using-power-automate.md) - [Extract text and data from PDFs](/guides/document-converter/power-automate/extraction.md) - [Extract data from PDFs using Power Automate](/guides/document-converter/power-automate/extraction/extract-data-from-pdf.md) - [Extract text from PDFs with Power Automate](/guides/document-converter/power-automate/extraction/extract-text-from-pdf.md) - [Extract pages from PDFs using Power Automate](/guides/document-converter/power-automate/extraction/extract-pdf-page.md) - [Extract key-value pairs from documents using Power Automate](/guides/document-converter/power-automate/extraction/kvp-extraction.md)