New in Docs: AI columns data extraction + iOS native comments

Hey all!

The releases keep on coming! :flexed_biceps:

First up—you know him, you love him: he’s @Henrique_Cruz1 and he dropped this little nugget recently, letting us know about some improvements to AI capabilities that we think you’re going to love: AI columns can now extract data straight from your files.

If you’ve got a File column full of PDFs, invoices, contracts, or screenshots, you can now point an AI column at them and pull out exactly the details you need—no manual data entry, no copy-paste. The AI reads each file and automatically populates your table’s columns with the values. Watch Henrique walk you through a demo here, and give him a follow while you’re at it!

What you can do with it

  • Digitize documents at scale. Extract vendor names, dates, amounts, line items—whatever you specify—from PDFs and images across every row.
  • Build real workflows fast. As Henrique showed, you can stand up something like an invoice-submission app in a couple of minutes: upload a file, and AI populates the structured fields around it.
  • Works across file types. PDFs and images are the sweet spot, with more file types in the mix.

This is one more step toward making your tables do the heavy lifting—turning messy documents into clean, usable data you can filter, sort, and act on.

Next up: native comments on iOS.

We’ve rebuilt the comments panel on iOS to be faster and more responsive, so pulling up and working through comments on your iPhone feels noticeably smoother. Same comments, less friction. Check out the quick video below to see the changes in action.


We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!

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This AI column file reader is incredible and very valuable !

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Cool cool. Now - can you make the app not crash on docs with a few pages and records? Asking for a friend.

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Such a nice feature, thanks for sharing ! :smile:

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Really nice one!

Could it work in Forms directly? Like uploading a doc and seeing what it extracts, edit as necessary before submitting?

We used a pack which did the extraction only after submission but the main reason people didn’t adopt it is because AI is great but it makes (costly) mistakes. And after trials it was ruled as way too risky for blind submission of financial, personal or other precise data.

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hi @Stefan_Stoyanov , you cannot have (at least not today) active AI in your forms. It is a capability on doc level and there is not yet a setting that allows AI colums to read other columns in a form and perform its magic (what is possible with for example relations via the form settings)

Maybe other form builders offer this, it is technically speaking not impossible, but not yet a coda capability.

Cheers, Christiaan

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Thanks, Christiaan. Indeed, that’s the case.

It was more of a feature request :slight_smile:

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