Integration between ABBYY and SharePoint online custom list attachments

Question

We want to OCR images uploaded to SharePoint, and the OCR capabilities provided by Power Automate will have a lot of limitations, mainly the inability to understand Signatures & most importantly the Checkboxes. So we are planning to go with ABBYY

So can we integrate SharePoint with ABBYY using this scenario:-

• We have multiple documents that we need to extract for each record
• We will create a SharePoint custom list which contain all the data that we need to extract from all the images
• Attached multiple files to the SharePoint list item >> add the new item
• Then call AbbYY either using Microsoft Power Automate or by writing remote event receivers >> to extract the data from the images (which are the attachments inside the list item) and populate SharePoint online list item’s fields.

My question is if the above is achievable or not?

Thanks

Answer 1

not sure whether ABBYY library may work directly with SPO. But in general if it may work with images represented e.g. as bytes array (MemoryStream) then you may first read images from SPO list item's attachments via CSOM and pass them to ABBYY lib. I recommend first to create simple console app which will do these steps - and if it will work plan how to trigger this code from SPO (e.g. install it as Azure function or Azure web job which runs periodically by scheduler).