Scale your automotive business with Parseur and Pipedream
Parseur is a powerful AI document processing tool that automates data extraction from PDFs, emails, and images. Parseur seamlessly integrates with Pipedream, opening exciting new document processing automation with hundreds of applications. In this article, we will take the automotive industry as a use case to explain the integration of Parseur and Pipedream. However, Parseur can be used in different cases and industries.
Benefits of integrating Parseur with Pipedream
Combining Parseur and Pipedream enables you to automate your data entry process and send the correct data to your favorite applications in real-time.
Parseur can extract data from emails from Outlook, Gmail, and other email providers. It can also extract text from PDFs, CSVs, spreadsheets, and more. You also have the option to create a custom template and teach Parseur which data field to create.
How does the integration with Pipedream and Parseur work?
Integrating Parseur with Pipedream is as simple as 1, 2, 3:
- Parseur receives your email or document
- Parseur extracts the specific information and sends it to Pipedream via webhook
- Pipedream exports the data to a connected application, e.g., Google Sheets
To use this integration, you will need:
- A Parseur account
- Your Pipedream account
Imagine you're a car agent receiving hundreds of emails daily from different platforms such as CarGurus or Cars.com. Those emails come in different layouts, which can be time-consuming to review. This routine is monotonous and can slow your sales. With an AI parsing tool like Parseur, you can extract information automatically and save hours of manual work.
Parseur can extract specific data from your car sales emails, such as:
- Buyer details (name, email, phone number)
- Car details (model, price, type)
- Message from buyer
Step 1: Create your free Parseur mailbox
Parseur is free to start with all the features enabled.
Once you sign up, you will be prompted to create your Parseur mailbox.
Choose the AI-assisted mailbox:
Step 2: Forward the car sales emails to your Parseur mailbox
To develop an automated workflow for document processing, ensure that documents are automatically sent to Parseur. Depending on your setup:
- Emails or Email Attachments: Set up auto-forwarding rules from your inbox to your Parseur mailbox.
- Cloud Drives: Connect Parseur to your cloud storage for seamless document retrieval.
- Custom Integrations: Leverage Parseur's API for automation tailored to your needs.
This approach ensures that Parseur processes your documents within seconds, streamlining your workflow.
Step 3: Verify the parsed data
The parsed results will appear like so:
Step 4: Integrate Parseur with Pipedream
Parseur integrates with Pipedream via different APIs. Parseur delivers events to Pipedream in real-time, triggering your Pipedream workflow and allowing you to send event data to any connected app. For this article, let’s use Webhooks to connect Parseur and Piedream. In your Parseur mailbox:
- Visit Export
- Click on Webhooks
- Select New webhook
You will see that a webhook URL is required to continue the integration process. In Pipedream:
- Create a new workflow
- Select the HTTP API trigger on the right
This will generate a custom URL specific to your workflow, which you can paste into the Target URL field of your Parseur webhook:
Once the webhook is created, you must re-process your email in Parseur so that Pipedream can receive the extracted data.
Step 5: Connect Pipedream with Google Sheets
In this example, we'll send Parseur data to Google Sheets. However, you can easily send data to any other application supported by Pipedream. Here, the process is quite straightforward:
- Click the + button below the HTTP API trigger to add a step to your workflow
- Search for "Google Sheets"
- Click on the Add Single Row action, and select the Drive and Spreadsheet you want to export the parsed data to
Once done, click Deploy and check your spreadsheet to see if the data has been sent automatically.
And that's it! Every email or document you send to this Parseur mailbox will be processed automatically and exported to Google Sheets via Pipedream without your manual intervention.