Abin Antony – Technical Articles

.NET Core, Python, Go, O365

Sales Invoice Processing Using Azure AI Document Intelligence and Databricks

Manually processing unstructured documents – like sales invoices, purchase orders or any scanned images – has always felt like one of the most frustrating bottlenecks in any business operations. I recently worked on automating this entire workflow using Azure AI Document Intelligence, Python, and Databricks, and the results were transformative. 🌟 The Challenge Manually reading…
Transform Handwritten Notes and Scanned Archives into Insights with AI

Manually extracting data from handwritten notes and scanned documents has, for no little time, been a very tedious process. Depending on stagnant OCR tools for extracting various styles of handwritten notes or from an old , smudged document were not solving the problem to its fullest. But with the cloud-based AI -Machine Learning solutions being…
Office 365 APIs & Its Integration with Andriod, iOS etc

Sharepointers, For the last couple of months I am playing a lot with Office 365 APIs. On my last blog post I have shared about Office365 Video APIs and its REST based games. This time I have something bit broader or some what a high level overview about the new API functionalities. Please click here…
Office 365 Video & Office 365 APIs

SharePointers & Other O365 Folks, Recently MSFT has released its video streaming service for Office 365, that is basically an intranet site for video portal . Just for curiosity, I tried available preview version from my Office 365 and happily created multiple channels and uploaded videos into it. I liked it very much because this can be…
SharePoint 2013 – Product level issue(s) as on MARCH 2013 CU, SP1, MAY 2014 CU , JULY 2014 CU & September 2014 CU

Sharepointers, Recently, I have been haunted(/haunting) with few SharePoint 2013 CU / hotfix issues. No idea why MSFT release bugs along with updates 🙂 , Kidding…!. So lets start with these bugs / issues , reproduction & fixes available etc. Issue #1 : User Context is redirected to Pages Library root while user tries to create …
Translating Text (NOT regular files & sites) using SharePoint 2013 Machine Translation Service Application

Sharepointers, Recently I came across a very simple requirement from our customer to create a ‘Plain text translation utility Webpart’ on our SharePoint 2013 portal. Presently we have components related to document translation, which is sole purpose of SP 2013 Machine Translation Service (MTS) Application.By default, all object models functionality of MTS on SharePoint 2013…
Formatting Date, Number Data on BCS OOB Business Data List Webpart

SharePointers, Recently I came across an interesting issue/requirement with our Business Data List WebPart. The issue is “Data fetched from an External datasource via BCS (External Content Type) need to be displayed on OOB Business DataList Webpart with proper formatting and sorting”. Here, By formatting it means that numbers should be displayed like XXX,XXX or…
Organization/Hierarchy Chart on SharePoint (using jquery, Javascipt-CSOM)

Hi developers, This time I have a very interesting stuff for you guys. Few days back I got a tricky requirement from one of my customers , its about populating their organizational structure dynamically on their SharePoint Intranet site without any server side components /Code. Means – there will be a SharePoint list from where…
Custom XML mapping of content control in a SharePoint Document Library Template

Hi Developers, After a long time ( was in a busy schedule of establishing family after my marriage 🙂 ) I thought I will post this article for setting the XML mapping of content control in a Word document template for SharePoint Document Library. To be frank, in most of the cases we are /…
When or How to Use Run With Elevated Privileges (RWEP) in SharePoint

The scope of this article is to explain the usage of RunWithElevatedPrivileges() [RWEP] – a method for security elevation for custom SharePoint components. “The RWEP method enables you to supply a delegate that runs a subset of code in the context of an account with higher privileges than the current user”, this is the definition…