Automate Invoice Data Extraction from Google Drive to Airtable using Nanonets OCR & Command-R — n8n Workflow

Medium complexity⚡ Trigger11 nodes🏷️ Invoice Processingby Ehsan

Overview

How it works This template creates a fully automated "hands-off" pipeline for processing financial documents. It's perfect for small businesses, freelancers, or operations teams who want to stop manually entering invoice and receipt data.

When you drop a new image/multiple images file into a specific Google Drive folder, this workflow automatically: Triggers and downloads the new file. Performs OCR on the file using a local AI model (Nanonets-OCR-s) to extract all the raw text. Cleans & Structu

Nodes used

AirtableGoogle DriveAI AgentOpenAI Chat ModelOpenAI

Workflow Preview

🚀 Welcome: OCR to Airtable Pipeline
This template automatically processes invoices and rece
1. Watches a Google Drive folder.
2. Performs OCR on the file.
3. Cleans & Structures
1. Configure "New File" Trigger
This node watches for new files to process.
Your To-Do:
1. Select your Google Drive Credentials.
2. Choose the Folder to Watch (this is your "inbox"
2. Configure OCR AI Model
This node connects to the AI model that performs the OC
Your To-Do:
1. Select your Credentials. (If using Ollama, this is
3. Configure Data Cleaning AI
This AI node takes the raw OCR text, cleans it, and str
Your To-Do:
1. Select your Credentials (can be the same as
4. Configure Airtable Output
This node saves the clean JSON data to your Airtable ba
Your To-Do:
1. Make sure you duplicated the base from the link in
2.
5. Configure "Done" & "Failed" Folders
These nodes move the processed file to keep your inbox
Your To-Do:
1. Select your Google Drive Credentials for both nodes
2. In `Move su
6.✅ All Done!
This node signals that the loop has finished processing
The workflow is now idle and will wait for the next fil
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Download file
Move failed
Move successful
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Loop Over Items
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file name & ID
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Done!
AI Agent-OCR
Data Cleaner
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OCR folder
AirTable - Create a reco…
OpenAI Chat Model
11 nodes14 edges

How it Works

  1. 1

    Trigger

    The workflow starts with a trigger trigger.

  2. 2

    Process

    Data flows through 11 nodes, connecting agent, airtable, googledrive.

  3. 3

    Output

    The workflow completes its automation and delivers the result to the configured destination.

Node Details (11)

AI

Airtable

airtable

#1
GO

Google Drive

googleDrive

#2
AI

AI Agent

n8n-nodes-langchain.agent

#3
OP

OpenAI Chat Model

n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi

#4
OP

OpenAI

n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi

#5

How to Import This Workflow

  1. 1Click Download JSON button on the right to save the workflow file.
  2. 2Open your n8n instance. Go to Workflows → New → Import from file.
  3. 3Select the downloaded automate-invoice-data-extraction-from-google-drive-to-airtable-using-nanonets-ocr-command-r file and click Import.
  4. 4Set up credentials for each service node (API keys, OAuth, etc.).
  5. 5Click Test Workflow to verify everything works, then activate it.

Or paste directly in n8n → Import from JSON:

{ "name": "Automate Invoice Data Extraction from Google Drive to Airtable using Nanonets OCR & Command-R", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

agentairtablegoogledrivegoogledrivetriggerlmchatopenaiopenaisetsplitinbatches

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Nodes11
Complexitymedium
Triggertrigger
CategoryInvoice Processing

Created by

Ehsan

Ehsan

@ehsan-z

Tags

agentairtablegoogledrivegoogledrivetriggerlmchatopenaiopenaisetsplitinbatches
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