Connectors
Connectors move documents in and out of DocAI Fabric automatically, without anyone clicking Upload. You configure a connector once, and from then on documents flow into your project on their own.
Import connectors
Import connectors watch an external source and pull new documents into a project. Each new file becomes a transaction that runs through your normal workflow (Import, OCR, Split, Classify, Extract, and so on), exactly as if the file had been uploaded by hand or through the API.
| Connector | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Import from Hotfolder | A watched folder on a filesystem the deployment can see (local disk, NFS or SMB share, Azure Files) | Available |
| Import from Email | A mailbox folder: any IMAP server, or Microsoft 365 via a Graph app registration. One email = one transaction (body as PDF + attachments) | Available |
| Cloud storage | Your own Azure Blob Storage, Amazon S3, or Google Cloud Storage container | Planned |
| Inbound email address | A dedicated receive-only address hosted by DocAI Fabric | Planned |
| SFTP | Your own SFTP server | Planned |
Once a connector is running in production, its live health (whether it is polling, whether it has stopped, whether it is quietly receiving nothing) is shown on the Monitoring page, which is also where you pause or resume it without publishing.
Availability by deployment
What a connector can reach depends on where DocAI Fabric runs:
| Deployment | Hotfolder | Cloud storage (planned) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted (on-premises, Docker) | Yes, available by default | Yes, with your mailbox credentials | Yes, with your credentials |
| Managed in Azure (your subscription) | Yes, enabled on request as a deployment setting | Yes, with your mailbox credentials | Yes, with your credentials |
| SaaS (app.docaifabric.com) | No (the platform cannot expose a shared filesystem) | Yes, with your mailbox credentials | Yes, with your credentials |
Export connectors
Export connectors push processed results out of DocAI Fabric (for example into a database or an ERP system). Today, results leave the platform through the Export activity and webhooks; richer export connectors are planned on the same framework.