Document AI – An End-to-End Solution for Processing Documents

Almost every business relies on some kind of document to convey information daily. This can be in the form of emails, contracts, forms, PDFs, and so on. Because this data is unstructured, many businesses often fail to take advantage of the value coming from this data. If there is a way to convert this huge amount of data from documents into machine-readable format, it can help with many useful tasks, such as automating business processes, doing analytics, applying AI and ML, and more. Considering the size of the data, it’s often not possible to parse these documents manually to extract information. Tools such as optical character recognition (OCR) can help in partially automating the task of at least converting the document into text format, but it will still be unstructured and more effort is required to make it useful.

Document AI is Google Cloud’s managed service that converts unstructured content...