Financial Document Extraction from Gmail to Google Sheets — n8n Workflow

High complexity⚡ Trigger20 nodes🏷️ Invoice Processing👁 240 viewsby Gtaras

Overview

Overview Manual financial reconciliation is tedious and prone to error. This workflow functions as an AI Financial Controller, automatically monitoring your inbox for invoices, receipts, and bills, extracting the data using OCR, and syncing it to Google Sheets for approval.

Unlike simple scrapers, this workflow uses a "Guardrail" AI agent to filter out non-financial emails (like newsletters) before they are processed, ensuring only actual transactions are recorded.

Who is it for? Finance Teams

Nodes used

Google SheetsGmailCodeAI AgentOpenAI Chat ModelGoogle Gemini Chat ModelGuardrails

Workflow Preview

1. Finance Guardrails
Uses Gemini/LangChain to detect if the email is actuall
2. Dual Extraction Path
If Attachment -> PDF OCR Agent
If No Attachment -> Email Body Agent
Both normalize data into the same JSON structure.
3. Business Logic
- GL Coding: Auto-categorizes vendors (Uber -> Travel).
- Thresholds: Flags high amounts (> $1000) for approval
Overview
Gtaras
Manual financial reconciliation is tedious and prone to
⚠️ Error Handling Flow
Any failures are logged and admins are notified
📊 Success Metrics Logger
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Look for Invoices
Get Email Content
Guardrail: Is Finance?
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Configuration: User Sett…
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IF (Guardrail Passed)
F
Filter Finance Keywords
C
Check for Attachment
E
Extract PDF Data
AI Agent (PDF OCR)
AI Agent (Email OCR)
Validate Extraction
C
Check for Errors
Apply Finance Rules
Log to Invoices Sheet
Send Confirmation Email
Log Error to Sheet
Send Error Notification
gpt 4o mini
Gemini 2.5 flash
Log Success Metrics
20 nodes21 edges

How it Works

  1. 1

    Trigger

    The workflow starts with a trigger trigger.

  2. 2

    Process

    Data flows through 20 nodes, connecting agent, code, extractfromfile.

  3. 3

    Output

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

Node Details (20)

GO

Google Sheets

googleSheets

#1
GM

Gmail

gmail

#2
CO

Code

code

#3
AI

AI Agent

n8n-nodes-langchain.agent

#4
OP

OpenAI Chat Model

n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi

#5
GO

Google Gemini Chat Model

n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatGoogleGemini

#6
GU

Guardrails

n8n-nodes-langchain.guardrails

#7

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 financial-document-extraction-from-gmail-to-google-sheets 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": "Financial Document Extraction from Gmail to Google Sheets", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

agentcodeextractfromfilefiltergmailgmailtriggergooglesheetsguardrailsiflmchatgooglegeminilmchatopenaiset

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Download JSONView on n8n.io
Nodes20
Complexityhigh
Triggertrigger
Views240
CategoryInvoice Processing

Created by

Gtaras

Gtaras

@tarasidis

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