Let AI Understand Every File in Your Folder — Fastest Setup, Fully Configurable (n8n)

Описание: This Workflow points AI at any Google Drive folder. Get one structured row per file in your folder. The AI reads each file one by one and extracts exactly the columns you defined.

This isn't a one-off tool — it's the starting template for every workflow that needs to read files. Point it at product photos today, invoices tomorrow, research papers next week. Same building block.

💡 FEATURES:
3 config fields: folder ID, spreadsheet ID, your column headers
Adaptive rate limiting — works on free-tier LLM APIs
Auto-schema discovery (structured output) — AI reads your headers and builds extraction rules

🕐 TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Intro: What This Building Block Does
4:12 – Demo: AI Classifies 6 Images (and Where It Fails)
6:59 – Walkthrough
9:05 – Advanced Options: Rate Limits, Batch Size, Filtering
12:45 – Running It: Watch AI Process a Folder Live
17:30 – Real Use Cases: Clothing Inventory, Art Cataloging
19:48 – Setup from GitHub: Copy-Paste into n8n
21:36 – Installing the Sub-Workflow (any-file2json-converter)
24:05 – Second Demo: Clothing Photos → Listings Table
26:45 – Refining the Schema with Claude
30:40 – Why This Is a Building Block, Not a Finished App

What You'll Learn:
N8n is the tool that lets me connect apps in 2026 with AI, by far the best. This workflow here is adaptable to many of your problems. Think of the setup as constantly running for you in the background, as well as a junior data analyst. Furthermore, you learn how to refine outputs by editing the auto-generated schema sheet, which represents the commonly used response format in AI (structured output json).

🎯 THE KEY INSIGHT:
Images, PDFs, CSVs, documents are AI-processable only with three edits:
folder ID, spreadsheet ID, column headers.

🔗 RESOURCES:
Get the workflow: https://github.com/runfish5/micro-ser...
Setup guide:
https://github.com/runfish5/micro-ser...
n8n (free automation tool): https://n8n.io

👋🏻 ABOUT ME
My name is David. Bioinformatician turned AI Engineer.

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