Bring image text into a Drive comment follow-up
A comment can point to a scan that needs review. Ask Notis to read the referenced image and include its text in the follow-up.
Trigger
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Action
ASTICA_READ_TEXT
Tool to perform ocr on an image to extract text. use when you need to read raw text from images after confirming the image source.
Why this helps
A comment that asks someone to inspect a scan can become another manual lookup and context switch.
- Connect a comment-triggered request to OCR
- Reduce manual image lookup during document review
- Return extracted text alongside the run report
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Astica ai once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a comment review name.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to use Astica OCR on the image referenced in the new comment when that image is available, then return the extracted text.
- 4Pick the Google Drive Comment Added trigger and choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real comment and referenced image, confirming the image is available to the automation.
Questions about this workflow
Does a comment event contain the referenced image itself?
The trigger description says a new comment is added to Docs, Sheets, or Slides. It does not guarantee the referenced image is included, so make sure the image is available to the automation before relying on OCR.
Can this workflow read the commenter's intent?
The listed Astica action extracts image text. Any interpretation of the comment or returned text depends on the instruction and available trigger data.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
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ASTICA_READ_TEXT
Tool to perform ocr on an image to extract text. use when you need to read raw text from images after confirming the image source.
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
File Shared (Permissions Added)
Triggers when new sharing permissions are granted to a file or folder. Uses Drive's `changes.list` endpoint with inline `permissions` in the `fields` mask so each change carries the file's current permission set provider-atomically. We diff that against `seen_permission_keys` to identify newly added grants. Drive page tokens are the primary cursor; if Drive rejects a stored token, the trigger raises `PollingTriggerError` without clearing state rather than silently re-baselining and dropping events. Limitation: truly ephemeral permissions (added and revoked between two polls without any other file modification in between) are not detected. Drive Activity API would catch those but requires an additional OAuth scope and a different payload contract.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
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