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Request for Built-In OCR Extraction Action in OutSystems
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As developers, we often get requirements where users upload files (PDFs, images, or scanned documents), and we need to extract text or structured data from those files inside our OutSystems applications.

Currently, we must integrate external OCR APIs (like Google Vision, Azure Cognitive Services, or Tesseract) manually — which adds extra configuration and cost.

It would be great if OutSystems could provide a built-in OCR Extraction Action that allows developers to:

  • Upload a file (PDF, image, DOCX, etc.)

  • Automatically extract and return the text/data content

  • Use it in server or client actions easily

This would simplify many automation and document-processing use cases directly in ODC or O11 without third-party integrations.

Is there any plan from OutSystems to provide such an OCR capability as a native AI action?

03 Nov 2025
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An AI action would probably be a third party with a layer on top.

There are multiple OCR components in the Forge. You can pick your favorite based in your requirements and budget.


03 Nov 2025
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To my knowledge there is no such plan by OutSystems. They rely on the capabilities that the community can extend the platform capabilities with custom components that can be made available in the Forge. For this type of problem, multiple components already exists.

04 Nov 2025
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