Use cases · extract
Extract Text
Extracting text from documents, images, or audio files is a common but time-consuming task when done manually. AI agents excel at this because they can process multiple formats—PDFs, scanned images, audio recordings, and more—with high accuracy and speed. By using specialized skills, agents can automatically identify, transcribe, and return the text content you need, saving hours of tedious work. Below are 2 skills we evaluated for this task.
Common questions
- Can I extract text from a scanned PDF using an AI agent?
- Yes. Skills like transcribe use OCR capabilities to extract text from scanned documents or images, converting them into editable text.
- How do I extract text from an audio recording with an AI agent?
- Use a transcription skill that processes audio files and returns the spoken content as text. The skill handles speech recognition and outputs a clean transcript.
- What formats can an AI agent extract text from?
- Most extraction skills support common formats such as PDF, JPEG, PNG, MP3, and WAV. The specific formats depend on the skill, but both transcribe and i18n cover a wide range.