Use Free Tier to Set Up Account for SAP Document AI and Go to Application
Use the free tier service plan and an SAP BTP booster to automatically create a service instance, and subscribe to the UI application for SAP Document AI.
Overview
You will learn
- How to access your SAP BTP account
- What are interactive guided boosters
- How to use the Set up account for SAP Document AI booster to assign entitlements, update your subaccount (or create a new one), create a service instance, subscribe to and access the SAP Document AI basic UI
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
- You have created an account on SAP BTP to try out free tier service plans: Get an Account on SAP BTP to Try Out Free Tier Service Plans
- You are entitled to use SAP Document AI: Manage Entitlements Using the Cockpit
Steps
Open the SAP BTP cockpit.
Access your global account.

global account
SAP Business Technology Platform creates interactive guided boosters to automate cockpit steps, so users can save time when trying out the services.
Now, you will use the Set up account for SAP Document AI booster to automatically assign entitlements, update your subaccount (or create a new one), create a service instance, subscribe to and access the SAP Document AI basic UI.
On the navigation side bar, click Boosters.

UI application Search for SAP Document AI and click Start.

UI application Click Next.

UI application If you want to create a dedicated subaccount for the service instance, choose Create Subaccount. If you want to use an already created subaccount, choose Select Subaccount (the selection comes in the next step). For this tutorial, we’ll create a dedicated subaccount. When you’re done with the selection, click Next.

UI application Choose the free plan. You can also rename the subaccount to
doc-ai-free-tier-service-plan-tutorial, for example. Choose the region closest to you. For this tutorial, we’ll use Europe (Frankfurt). Click Next.
UI application You can also perform this tutorial series using the following service plans intended for productive use: Premium Edition (premium_edition) or Base Edition (blocks_of_100). To do so, choose either the
premium_editionor theblocks_of_100plan in this step (instead of free). For more information on the service plans available for SAP Document AI, see Service Plans.Click Finish.

UI application Follow the progress of the booster automated tasks.

UI application When the automated tasks are done, see the Success dialog box.

UI application
Right click Go to Application, then click Copy link to save the link to be able to open the application once again in the future.

UI application Click Go to Application.

UI application
You have successfully used the booster Set up account for SAP Document AI to subscribe to and access the SAP Document AI basic UI.

If you face any issue with the booster Set up account for SAP Document AI, you can alternatively follow the steps in Use Free Tier to Subscribe to SAP Document AI Basic UI to subscribe to the user interface application manually.
Step 4 is optional. If you’re not interested, you can set it to Done and go directly to the next tutorial.
This is an optional step. Use it only if you want to access the SAP Document AI application, you’ve subscribed to using the Set up account for SAP Document AI booster, without having to run it once again.
Do the following to access the SAP Document AI application, without having to run the Set up account for SAP Document AI booster once again:
Close the booster Success dialog box.

UI application Click Account Explorer on the navigation side bar and access the subaccount you used to create your subscription to the SAP Document AI application.

UI application Click Instances and Subscriptions on the navigation side bar. You see the application subscription you created with the Set up account for SAP Document AI booster.

UI application Click the dots to open the menu and select Go to Application to open the app.

UI application
Congratulations, you’ve completed this tutorial.
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