# Get Text from Invoice Image with OCR Space: n8n workflow

> Started by someone submitting a form, and works across Gmail. 6 steps: small enough to read in one sitting and change without fear.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/get-text-from-invoice-image-with-ocr-space (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Get Text from Invoice Image with OCR Space

Started by someone submitting a form, and works across Gmail. 6 steps: small enough to read in one sitting and change without fear.

Small

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**6 steps** Small: readable in one sitting

**0** Branches: places the flow splits

**0** Loops or waits

**1** Service it connects to

## The flow

Starts it 1 Logic 3 Service 2

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

- 1 **Image to Text File Form** Form trigger *Starts it*
- 2 **To Base64** Code *Logic*
- 3 **Request OCR** Http Request *Service*
- 4 **Get OCR Results** Code *Logic*
- 5 **HTML Table Format** Code *Logic*
- 6 **Send Gmail as Table** Gmail *Service*

## How it's built

- **Starts on:** Someone submitting a form
- **Steps:** 6
- **Size:** Small: readable in one sitting
- **Connects to:** Gmail
- **Model:** None. This is plumbing, not judgement

## Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own Gmail account. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on someone submitting a form.

Does it use AI?

No. Every step is fixed logic or a call to a service, so it does the same thing every time.

How long does it take to set up?

Not long. At 6 steps it can be read in one sitting and changed without fear.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

**Before you run it**

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 6 steps before you point it at anything that matters.

## Run it in n8n

- **Create your n8n account** Free to start. n8n is where the workflow runs. [Create an n8n account ↗](https://millionrounds.com/n8n)
- **Download the workflow** Free with a Millionrounds account. [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Fget-text-from-invoice-image-with-ocr-space)
- **Paste it into n8n** Open a new workflow in n8n and paste. Then connect your own accounts.

Stored with the author's traces removed: canvas notes, instance identifiers, saved credential names and any live document they had left behind.

## Connects to

Each opens the other workflows that use it.

[Gmail](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Gmail#library)

## Workflows like it

Also money admin, with the same services where possible, closest in size first.

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- [**Chase overdue invoice reminders from Google Sheets with Gmail** 6 steps · Gmail, Google Sheets](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/chase-overdue-invoice-reminders-from-google-sheets-with-gmai)