Hi everyone,
I’m trying to build an automation in Make.com and need some help. I want to automatically create Trello cards when a new order (in PDF or Word format) is uploaded to a specific folder in Google Drive.
The files contain details like:
– Order number
– Customer name
– Event info (dates, location)
– Items with quantity, size, material, etc.
– Notes and contact info
My goal is to extract this info and send it to Trello, creating a new card in a board and list I choose, with the order details as the card description. Ideally, the original file should be attached to the card too.
I’m not sure how to extract structured data from the file and format the Trello card properly.
Any advice, examples, or templates would be really appreciated!
Thanks in advance 
You can try taking the following steps:
- Trigger when a new file (PDF or DOCX) is uploaded to a specific folder.
- Google Drive – Get File: Retrieve the file content and metadata (e.g. name, link).
- Use a Router to handle PDF and DOCX separately.
- PDF Path – Use PDF Parser (e.g. PDF.co or Make’s PDF module) Extract text from the PDF file.
- DOCX Path – Use Microsoft Word or CloudConvert to convert DOCX to plain text Extract readable text from the Word file.
- Text Parser – Extract Structured Data
- Trello – Create a Card
- Trello – Attach File to Card Upload the original PDF/DOCX file to the created Trello card.
Welcome to the Make community!
Yes, that is possible. You’ll need a minimum of five modules:
One AI module simplifies the entire process. Technically, you could reduce it to just 4 modules, if you set the Drive folder to “public” - then you can skip downloading the file and just pass the URL directly to Dumpling AI “Extract Data from Document(s)” — which does the auto-detection of document type.
This is just an example. Your final solution may or may not look like this depending on your requirements.
For more information, see the official documentation at List of Dumpling AI modules in Make.com
More Examples of How to use Dumpling AI
For more information, see these Dumpling AI tutorials below, grouped by category:
YouTube & Videos
Image Generation
AI Agents & RAGs
Searching & Scraping
Other Data Extraction
Business & Social
Dumpling AI Tutorials
In short, Dumpling AI is able to replace several other paid services combined that cost more than itself, making it a noteworthy choice as the “multi-tool” of AI services.
How to Use
For more information on how to set this up, refer to these forum threads:
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues. P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!
— @samliew