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Automating Receipt OCR into Google Sheets with AI [E015]

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Automating Receipt OCR into Google Sheets with AI [E015]

By Piotr Sikora

  • n8n

  • 15 May 2026

  • 1 min read

Table of Contents

  • How the workflow works
  • What you will learn
  • Watch the episode

Typing receipts and invoices into a spreadsheet is classic boring manual work. In this episode I build a workflow from scratch that does it automatically: you send a photo of a document and the data lands in Google Sheets.

How the workflow works

  1. A chat node accepts a message with an attached photo of a receipt or invoice.
  2. A vision-capable AI model recognizes amounts, dates, the vendor and line items in the photo.
  3. The structured data is written as a new row in Google Sheets.

What you will learn

  • How to handle file uploads in the chat node.
  • How to prompt the model so it returns data in a predictable structure.
  • How to map the AI response to Google Sheets columns.

In a later episode I extend this workflow to process multiple documents at once.

Watch the episode

The video is available on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=hQL3Ox8J1cY.

All episodes are collected on the Automation Academy page (in Polish). Subscribe to my YouTube channel so you do not miss new material.

The video is in Polish; this post summarizes what it covers.

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    #google sheets

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    #document automation

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