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Analyzing expense receipts with Azure Cognitive Services and Microsoft Flow

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Recently, Business Applications MVP Steve Endow and I delivered a session at the User Group Summits in Phoenix, and in particular, to the GPUG Summit titled, "Microsoft Dynamics GP and Azure Services". In this course we detailed a number of Azure Services (among the hundreds) that could potentially be used with Microsoft Dynamics GP. Being that I have also been working my way through completing a Microsoft sanctioned PowerApps, Flow, and CDS self-paced, online training class offered by edX (click here for more info on the course) and presented by Business Applications MVP Shane Young , I asked myself, what could I do with Microsoft Flow and Azure Services that could benefit Microsoft Dynamics GP users? Playing with some Azure Services, I came across Azure Cognitive Services  which offers the capability of reading images and analyzing them for text via its Computer Vision service . As it turns out, this service offers an optical character recognition (OCR) feature, which