Use cases

Offering robust document handling capabilities within Camunda 8, users can efficiently manage large volumes of binary data such as PDFs and images across both development and production environments in SaaS and Self-Managed.

In this section we will cover three main use cases:

• Upload a document to a BPMN process
• Display and download a document
• Send a document to an external system via a connector

Automate documents with intelligent document processing

Document handling can be integrated with intelligent document processing (IDP). This allows you to extract specific data from a high volume of documents using an IDP application, and use the extracted data throughout your BPMN process.

Learn more about this in the IDP documentation:

📄️ IDP integration

A worked example showing how you can integrate a published IDP document extraction template into a simple process in Web Modeler.