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  Transcribing text from images is tedious, time-consuming and error-prone. Luckily, you don’t need to manually transcribe text anymore thanks to text recognition in AI Builder. In just a few clicks, you can extract text from an image or PDF. It works on file formats such as .PDF, .PNG and .JPEG. You can then use the extracted text in emails and other tasks, saving you a lot of time and boosting productivity. Getting Started The text integration model in Power Automate flows and Power Apps is guaranteed to save you time and reduce your manual workload, especially if you deal with a lot of handwritten notes which need to be digital. The GIF on the side shows you how to do that. Keep in mind that you will need AI Builder. If you don’t have a subscription for it, you can still try it out for free using the Power Apps Developer Plan. Go to this website and select AI Builder > Build from the left navigation menu. Click on the Text Recognition model. Using Text Recognition You can use...

In the current challenging times due to COVID19, there are a wide range of circumstances organisations experience that require communication tools to be created and deployed efficiently to help employees with their remote work needs. This blog post walks you through a Microsoft Teams FAQ bot that is pre-installed by an organization admin to help onboard new employees and support their remote office setup needs. This bot can help address common questions from employees such as new employee orientation dates.  It can also notify human experts for requests that require human intervention, for example, getting ergonomic furniture for their remote office. The bot is deployed on Microsoft Teams so it is available to everyone in the organization. You can  sign up  for the Power Virtual Agents trial version to create a bot. This blog walks you through an example with guidance that you can expand for other scenarios. The key goal of this blog is to help you get a Microsoft Teams...