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Classify and route uploaded documents to Google Drive with an AI agent

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Created by: Felix || easybits
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What This Workflow Does

Upload a document (PDF, PNG, JPEG) via a web form and let an AI agent classify it and route it to the correct Google Drive folder on its own. No rule-based routing, no Switch nodes – the agent decides the category and calls the matching move tool. Documents it can't confidently classify are moved to a Needs Review folder and flagged via Slack.

How It Works

  1. User uploads a file through the hosted web form
  2. The file is uploaded to a temporary Incoming folder in Google Drive
  3. The file ID and name are passed to the AI Agent
  4. The agent classifies the document and calls the matching Move tool (e.g. move_to_medical)
  5. If it can't confidently classify, it calls Move to Needs Review + sends a Slack alert

Supported categories:
medical_invoice · restaurant_invoice · hotel_invoice · trades_invoice · telecom_invoice

Setup Guide

1. Create Your Google Drive Folders

Create one folder per category in Google Drive:

  • Incoming (temporary landing folder)
  • Medical · Restaurant · Hotel · Trades · Telecom
  • Needs Review

2. Connect Google Drive

  1. In n8n, go to Settings → Credentials and create a Google Drive OAuth2 credential
  2. This requires a Client ID and Client Secret from Google Cloud Console (APIs & Services → Credentials → OAuth 2.0 Client ID)
  3. Make sure the Google Drive API is enabled in your Google Cloud project
  4. Open the Upload to Incoming Folder node and select your Incoming folder
  5. Open each of the 6 Move tool nodes and select the correct target folder

3. Connect Your Chat Model

  1. Add a credential for your chosen model (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic) in Settings → Credentials
  2. Open the Chat Model node and assign the credential
  3. Any tool-calling capable model will work – Gemini 1.5 Pro or GPT-4o recommended

4. Connect Slack

  1. Create a Slack API credential in n8n (needs a Bot Token with chat:write scope)
  2. Create a channel for review notifications (e.g. #document-review)
  3. Invite the bot to that channel
  4. Open the Slack: Notify Review Channel node and select the correct channel

5. Activate & Test

  1. Click Active in the top-right corner of n8n
  2. Open the form URL and upload a test document
  3. Check the execution log to confirm the classification and the move action
  4. Verify the file lands in the correct Google Drive folder
  5. Test with an unrecognizable document to confirm the Slack alert fires

Notes

  • The agent's classification quality depends on the filename and the chat model's reasoning. Descriptive filenames improve accuracy significantly.
  • This workflow is an agentic demo – it replaces deterministic routing with LLM decision-making. For production-grade document classification with structured extraction, per-field prompting, and explicit confidence scoring, check out the easybits Extractor community node.