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Overview of document intelligence

Overview of document intelligence

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Overview of document intelligence

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- [Instructor] Document intelligence refers to techniques that automatically read, understand, and analyze business documents. This is a challenging task due to the diversity of formats, poor quality of scanned images, and the complexity of templates. But why is document intelligence necessary? Data is the new gold. Yet over 80% of the world's data is unstructured. Unstructured data lacks a predefined model, making it hard to transfer to spreadsheets or databases without a data lake. This includes emails, documents, presentations, contracts, invoices, receipts, custom forms, images, videos, and many more. Think about it, most of the data we capture is unstructured. Let's look at some real world business scenarios. Companies manually store large volumes of legal documents in the cloud for compliance and audits. Organizations manually extract information from documents for financial, medical, or statistical analysis. Businesses manually record invoices and receipts into financial…

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