Extract Meanings with Document Processing

Despite the push for the digitization of content for many years, there are still a lot of paper documents that require workers to read and interpret the information – whether it is structured data, such as tax forms, or semi-structured data, such as invoices, utility bills, and so on. This chapter describes how to set up an automated document processing pipeline using the Automation Document Processing (ADP) technology in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

• Example scenario - Bill of Lading
• Setting expectations for AI document processing systems
• Problem statement – automating inventory management systems
• Content classification and extraction with AI
• Building a document processing application
• Customized document types and data formats
• Data enrichment
• Data standardization

There are two major steps to setup a document processing...