Workflow: engineer an n8n flow that executes Wait Splitout Create Webhook
Integrations: aggregate, gmail, gmailTrigger, googleSheets, httpRequest, if, merge, set, splitOut, stickyNote, switch, wait

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Advanced PDF Processing with LlamaParse\n[Read more about using HTTP Requests](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/core-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.httprequest/)\n\nLlamaIndex's LlamaCloud is a cloud-based service that allows you to upload,\nparse, and index document. 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"content": "## 1. Watch for Invoice Emails\n[Read more about Gmail Triggers](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/trigger-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.gmailtrigger)\n\nThe Gmail node can watch for all incoming messages and filter based on a condition. We'll set our Gmail node to wait for:\n* a message from particular email address.\n* having an attachment which should be the invoice PDF\n* not having a label \"invoice synced\", which is what we use to avoid duplicate processing."}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "ff7cb6e4-5a60-4f12-b15e-74e7a4a302ce", "name": "Sticky Note2", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [2360, 70.48792658995046], "parameters": {"color": 7, "width": 805.0578351924228, "height": 656.5014186128178, "content": "## 3. Use LLMs to Extract Values from Data\n[Read more about Basic LLM Chain](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/cluster-nodes/root-nodes/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainllm/)\n\nLarge language models are perfect for data extraction tasks as they can work across a range of document layouts without human intervention. The extracted data can then be sent to a variety of datastores such as spreadsheets, accounting systems and/or CRMs.\n\n**Tip:** The \"Structured Output Parser\" ensures the AI output can be\ninserted to our spreadsheet without additional clean up and/or formatting. "}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "0d510631-440b-41f5-b1aa-9b7279e9c8e3", "name": "Sticky Note3", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [1934, 774], "parameters": {"color": 5, "width": 394.15089838126653, "height": 154.49585536070904, "content": "### \ud83d\ude4b\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Why not just use the built-in PDF convertor?\nA common issue with PDF-to-text convertors are that they ignore important data structures like tables. These structures can be important for data extraction. For example, being able to distinguish between seperate line items in an invoice."}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "fe7fdb90-3c85-4f29-a7d3-16f927f48682", "name": "Sticky Note4", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [3200, 157.65172434465347], "parameters": {"color": 7, "width": 362.3535748101346, "height": 440.3435768155051, "content": "## 4. Add Label to Avoid Duplication\n[Read more about working with Gmail](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/app-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.gmail/)\n\nTo finish off the workflow, we'll add the \"invoice synced\" label to the original invoice email to flag that the extraction was successful. This can be useful if working with a shared inbox and for quality control purposes later."}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "1acf2c60-c2b9-4f78-94a4-0711c8bd71ab", "name": "Sticky Note5", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [300, 140], "parameters": {"width": 360.0244620907562, "height": 573.2443601155958, "content": "## Try Me Out!\n\n**This workflow does the following:**\n* Waits for email invoices with PDF attachments.\n* Uses the LlamaParse service to convert the invoice PDF into a markdown file.\n* Uses a LLM to extract invoice data from the Markdown file.\n* Exports the extracted data to a Google Sheet.\n\n### Follow along with the blog here\nhttps://blog.n8n.io/how-to-extract-data-from-pdf-to-excel-spreadsheet-advance-parsing-with-n8n-io-and-llamaparse/\n\n### Good to know\n* You'll need to create the label \"invoice synced\" in gmail before using this workflow.\n\n### Need Help?\nJoin the [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/XPKeKXeB7d) or ask in the [Forum](https://community.n8n.io/)!\n\nHappy Hacking!"}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "3802c538-acf9-48d8-b011-bfe2fb817350", "name": "Add \"invoice synced\" Label", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.gmail", "position": [3320, 400], "parameters": {"labelIds": ["Label_5511644430826409825"], "messageId": "={{ $('Receiving Invoices').item.json.id }}", "operation": "addLabels"}, "credentials": {"gmailOAuth2": {"id": "Sf5Gfl9NiFTNXFWb", "name": "Gmail account"}}, "typeVersion": 2.1}, {"id": "ffabd8c5-c440-4473-8e44-b849426c70cf", "name": "Get Parsed Invoice Data", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest", "position": [2160, 280], "parameters": {"url": "=https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/parsing/job/{{ $json.id }}/result/markdown", "options": {"redirect": {"redirect": {}}}, "authentication": "genericCredentialType", "genericAuthType": "httpHeaderAuth"}, "credentials": {"httpHeaderAuth": {"id": "pZ4YmwFIkyGnbUC7", "name": "LlamaIndex API"}}, "typeVersion": 4.2}, {"id": 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"n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [2540, 460], "parameters": {"width": 192.26896179623753, "height": 213.73043662572252, "content": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Need more attributes?**\nChange it here!"}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "83aa6ed0-ce3b-48d7-aded-475c337ae86e", "name": "Sticky Note7", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [2880, 300], "parameters": {"width": 258.29345180972877, "height": 397.0641952938746, "content": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ud83d\udea8**Required**\n* Set Your Google Sheet URL here\n* Set the Name of your Sheet\n\n\n**Don't use GSheets?**\nSwap this for Excel, Airtable or a Database!"}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "720070f6-2d6c-45ef-80c2-e950862a002b", "name": "Sticky Note8", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [740, 380], "parameters": {"width": 174.50671517518518, "height": 274.6295678979021, "content": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ud83d\udea8**Required**\n* Change the email filters here!"}, "typeVersion": 1}], 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