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Checkbox case in Power Automate Document processing

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Building Document Processing model in AI Builder (Power Automate) with a "Fixed template document"-model as the documents we want to read have all the similar form (pdf file) with a mix of text and tables with checkboxes. 
 
Though the people that have filled out the documents have sometimes put a hyphen in the checkboxes to say there is no presence of that characteristic, but the hyphen is confusing the AI model as it takes it sometimes (not all the time!) as a 'check'. 
 
If that characteristic is really present, then there is an "X" and the text behind it ("IMO 4" in the example below) is not striked through anymore. (see good example below)
 
How can we overcome this issue? We tried reading it out as a text string but AI builder won't allow us as it recognises a checkbox 'and actually gives a checkbox "🔲" as a value for the text string.
 
 
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    Thanks for reaching out.
     
    Have you tried tagging the document by defining the field as text instead of a checkbox?

    Would you mind sharing a few sample documents with me privately so I can try to reproduce the issue?
     
    thanks

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