What problem does it solve?
It turns unstructured files like images, PDFs, Word, and Excel documents into structured database records without manual data entry, while enforcing safe, audited writes through the platform's data-flow channel instead of direct database connections.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Document-to-CSV Parsing: Converts images (via OCR) and documents (PDF/Word/Excel) into Markdown tables, maps fields to knowledge-network object-type definitions, and produces RFC 4180 CSV files.
- Safe Database Import: Resolves the write target through object-type, dataview, and datasource lookups, deduplicates against existing primary keys, and imports rows via
ontology ds import-csv with batch control.
- Guardrails and Confirmation: Blocks direct MySQL/JDBC writes, requires per-field user confirmation on mapping ambiguities, and demands explicit approval of the write plan before execution.
- Use Case: A user uploads a scanned product list image; the skill OCRs it, maps columns to the product object type, removes rows whose primary keys already exist, and inserts only the new rows into the target table.
Quick Start
Ask the assistant to import your CSV or document into a specific object class, for example: import the file products.csv into the product object type of my knowledge network.