Manual data processing is holding your business back. AI Builder in Power Automate lets you add intelligence to your workflows without coding.
This Quick Win shows how to automate document processing, text analysis, image recognition, and GPT integration—transforming tedious tasks into efficient, intelligent processes.
What is AI Builder?
AI Builder is Microsoft's no-code AI solution that seamlessly integrates with the Power Platform. It provides ready-to-use intelligence that can be easily incorporated into your business processes through Power Automate, Power Apps, and other Power Platform tools.
AI Builder offers three types of models:
Prebuilt models: Ready-to-use AI capabilities that require no training
Custom models: Models you can train with your own data
Prebuilt but customizable models: Standard models that can be tailored to your specific needs
What can you do with AI Builder?
AI Builder brings no-code intelligence to your Power Platform solutions:
Process Documents: Extract data from invoices, receipts
Process Text: Analyze sentiment, classify content
Process Images: Generate description, detect objects
Build Generative AI: Create GPT-powered capabilites
1. Document Processing
Document processing is one of the most powerful capabilities in AI Builder. It allows you to automatically extract structured information from documents like invoices, receipts, IDs, and more.
How to Set Up Document Processing in Power Automate:
Create a new flow
Retrieve your document (e.g., from SharePoint, OneDrive, or an email attachment)
Add an AI Builder action
Select the appropriate document processing action:
Extract information from invoices
Extract information from receipts
Recognize text in an image or PDF document
Process identity documents
Process business cards
Document Processing Ideas:
2. Image Processing
AI Builder's Image processing capabilities let you extract intelligence from visual content. This opens up possibilities for automating tasks that previously required human visual inspection.
How to Set Up Image Processing in Power Automate:
Create a new flow
Retrieve your image(e.g., from SharePoint, OneDrive, or an email attachment)
Add an AI Builder action
Select the appropriate image processing action:
Generate description of an image
Detect custom objects in images (requires a custom model)
Image Processing Ideas:
3. Text Processing
AI Builder's Text processing capabilities allow you to derive insights from unstructured text data, opening up possibilities for automating tasks that previously required human reading and interpretation.
How to Set Up Text Processing in Power Automate:
Create a new flow
Retrieve your image(e.g., from SharePoint, OneDrive, or an email attachment)
Add an AI Builder action
Select the appropriate text processing action:
Classify text into categories
Detect language
Extract key phrases
Analyze sentiment
Extract entities
Translate text
Text Processing Ideas:
4. GPT Integration with Prompts
One of the most exciting recent additions to AI Builder is the ability to leverage GPT capabilities through Prompts. This brings the power of large language models directly into your Power Automate flows.
How to Set Up GPT Prompts in Power Automate:
Create a new flow
Add an ,,Run a prompt” action
Select a prompt type or create a custom prompt:
Summarize text
Draft reply
Classify text
Extract text
Custom prompts
GPT Prompts Ideas:
By integrating AI Builder actions into your Power Automate flows, you've transformed manual, error-prone processes into intelligent, automated workflows.
Without need to write a single line of code or have any data science expertise.
