Build a Power Automate flow using AI Builder to read information from a drivers licence

Using the Extract information from identity documents action

AI Builder functionality can be used in a Power Automate flow.

It is available as actions that can be added to the flow.

The following actions for AI Builder are available

Today we will build a flow that extracts information from a image of a drivers licence.

The example drivers licence image is taken from an article on Business Insider that has example images of drivers licences for each US State.

Step 1: Create the flow and set up the trigger action

• Create a new Instant Cloud Flow
• Name the flow – AI identity reader or a name that you prefer
• Add an input of type File
• Name the file input Licence file (1)

Step 2: Add the AI builder action to the flow

• Add a new action to the flow, below the first trigger action – Search for AI builder (2)
• Find the action called Extract information from identity documents (3) in the list and add it to the flow.
• Select the Licence file (4) (or the name you gave your trigger input) from Dynamic Content

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Step 3: Save and Test run your flow

• Add a compose action(5) to view the First name(6) for the drivers licence. This is just to view the first name when the flow has run.
• Click Save (7) to save the flow
• Click Test (8) to test the flow
• Select Manually (9)

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Step 4: Select the file and view the results

• Select one of the licences that you saved by clicking the Import button (10),(11). Make sure it is not webP. It needs to be .png or .jpg
• Click Run flow (12)
• View all the info in the output of the Extract information from identity documents(13)
• View the First name in the Compose action (14)

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The flow is now done. You have created an instant cloud flow that will take a file that is a photo of a drivers licence as input parameter and with the help of a process the text on the drivers licence and output the First name in a Compose action.

What you could do more is to add a table an create an action that stores all the information from the drivers licence to that table.

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