What is Document AI?
AI systems that combine OCR, layout analysis, and language models to extract structured data from invoices, receipts, contracts, and forms.
Document AI goes beyond raw OCR by understanding semantics: it knows which number on an invoice is the total, which line is a vendor name, which clause is a termination clause. Modern Document AI uses transformer models trained on document layouts (LayoutLM, Donut, Textract, Document AI from Google).
Also known as
- Intelligent Document Processing
- IDP
Related terms
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition) — OCR is the technology that converts text inside an image or scanned PDF into machine-readable, searchable, editable text.
- Table Extraction — The process of detecting tabular regions in a PDF and exporting them as structured rows and columns — usually into Excel or CSV.
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