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Hi,

I've got a flow running where I extract PDF-text and use this to fill the description of the invoice in our ERP. I would like to get this extracted text summarized (at the moment I only automate invoices that are structured and where I can get a decent description of the text with actions like splitting etc). I could do this through an API and connect with Azure OpenAI, but I prefer to do this with Copilot. Is this possible? The best I could do is to connect with a copilot studio agent, but this only generates a conversation ID, not the actual response. It seems that I can't get the actual response back into Power Automate desktop.

What's the most efficient way to summarize my extract PDF-text?

Thanks in advance,

Youri

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Power Automate Desktop

Hi @YM-26051441-0,

Seems like you are hitting native limitations. PAD can call APIs and services, but it doesn’t natively let you “pull back” a Copilot response into the flow the same way you can with Azure OpenAI or other REST endpoints.

Probably you have two options - if you can explore:

Use the Copilot Studio “API” channel - Instead of the Teams/web channel, configure an API endpoint for your Copilot Studio bot. PAD can call the endpoint via HTTP and receive the actual response text. You can then parse that text and feed it into your ERP description field.
Use Power Automate Cloud Flow + PAD - Create a cloud flow that calls Copilot Studio (via the API channel). Return the summarized text as an output of the cloud flow. PAD can then trigger that cloud flow and capture the response.

Let me know if these clue helps.

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