SharePoint has added some great AI components when coupled with M365 Copilot. We have had this for a few weeks in GA:
The Summarize feature is fantastic:
- It works well in Word and Excel and is okay in PPTX files.
- It processes images using OCR and AI to interpret them and generate a summary.
- It works with PDFs/Adobe documents, including text with embedded images and image-based PDFs. Pdf-A also.
There is no MS Graph API yet for this functionality, so I used Playwright to scrape the summaries and add them to a summary metadata field. I came across Knowledge Agent, which is in public preview, and it is fantastic.
Knowledge Agent (for SharePoint online if you have a M365 Copilot licence):
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| Knowledge Agent in the SPO UI |
If you need it enabled, as a SharePoint Admistrator you need to enable it using PowerShell.
Generate metadata using your existing files and metadata as the example shows below:
