Flow / Power Automate - Create a Desktop Flow with Power Automate from a Template Tutorial

Discover how to create a powerful desktop flow using Power Automate templates. Customize the flow to extract images from PDF files with ease. Say goodbye to manual, time-consuming tasks and embrace the efficiency of Power Automate. Learn to modify and personalize your flow for seamless execution. Unlock the potential of automating PDF image extraction and enjoy a hassle-free process.

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Available in Microsoft365

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You can then customize this flow by modifying it according to your needs.

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Let's start by launching the power automate desktop application from the shortcut

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to access the templates offered by power automate,

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select example from the home screen.

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The templates are then classified by themes.

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In our case, we will look at the available templates related to PDF files.

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A list of templates will be presented with a title, a description

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and a level of technicality.

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Let's try the flow that automates the extraction of images from a PDF.

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Generally, when we have this need, we tend to open a PDF for example,

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a product marketing file and try to right click on

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the image to save it but it often doesn't work.

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We then follow the good old technique of a screenshot

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defining a selection frame often imprecise

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and yet we have only one image to capture in this PDF.

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That's where power automate comes into play

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from the template that interests you, you generate a copy of the flow

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rename it and it will be available and editable in the my flows menu.

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Let's test this template copy as is

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upon execution. A dialog box will ask you to select the PDF file to process

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point to your marketing sheet and click extract

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a second dialogue box will then ask you to

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specify a target folder to save the extracted images,

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select your desktop and create a folder.

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After a few moments,

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a folder containing all the images from the PDF will appear on your desktop.

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Perfect

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to modify the terms in our flow and add a confirmation message at the end of it,

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go to my flows and the pencil icon allows you to edit

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on the screen. You will see the structure of your flow.

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Choose to modify the first form block using the three little dots.

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You can customize your dialogue box label here.

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Just click the designer button to access form attributes and make your update.

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In this example, we leave everything as default

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to add an execution,

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confirmation message type message in the left column and drag

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the corresponding action to the end of the flow.

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Customize the title and message of the box

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specify that images from protected PDF S will not be extracted.

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Finally customize the extract images from a PDF action

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by modifying the prefix of the saved image names.

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You can specify a range of pages to extract or a specific page.

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Here we keep all the pages

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test again.

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After executing the flow and the confirmation message,

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you will see that the specified folder contains all the images from the PDF.

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You only need to sort and keep the ones that interest you.

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The flow is 100% operational.

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