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What Is Intelligent Document Processing, and How Does It Work?
Get answers to frequently asked questions about IDP and learn what it can do for your business.
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Ninety percent of business processes involve documents. Smart organizations are using automation to handle input because documents often arrive through various channels, in different formats, and at unpredictable times. Without automation, workflow optimization becomes a complex challenge.
Intelligent document processing (IDP) brings order to chaos. It lets you capture and process information from any type of document—emails, paper, photos, and more—regardless of how it comes in. With intelligent automation, anything from handwritten notes to scanned images can become valuable data.
Businesses have a range of powerful options for connecting their systems to the ABBYY IDP platform. Third-party systems can be linked with a REST API or pre-built connectors so documents are processed in real time. The platform can also be configured to monitor shared folders and email folders. And, you can add mobile document capture directly into customer-facing processes and apps so documents are effortlessly sent for processing.
Once ABBYY IDP is integrated with your systems, documents can be automatically ingested, no matter where they come from or what they look like. Documents can even be scanned in from a mobile device—no separate photo required.
As soon as the document reaches ABBYY IDP, intelligent document classification and data extraction technologies immediately transform its information into actionable insights for your business.
Ingest documents from multiple channels—mobile devices, email, shared folders, network scanners, and direct connections to business systems via API or pre-built connectors—ensuring seamless integration into your workflows, no matter how documents enter your organization. This flexibility empowers you to efficiently support diverse business processes, adapting to your specific needs and streamlining operations from every entry point.
The quality of document images can vary significantly due to issues like poor lighting and distortions from mobile cameras—or come with multiple auxiliary elements such as patterned backgrounds, protection marks, field markings, lines, and guides that obscure important information.
ABBYY’s AI-powered image enhancement algorithms optimize each image for accurate data extraction. The AI corrects distortions and separates text from the background, cleaning up even the most complex and visually busy documents—such as IDs, birth certificates, and forms—to achieve reliable results and high straight-through processing rates.
AI has transformed the ability to read and interpret content previously deemed impossible to process, dramatically expanding the use cases for automation. ABBYY IDP uses advanced AI-based optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent character recognition (ICR) technologies to digitize printed and handwritten text, preparing it for further processing. These technologies are able to recognize the logical structure of the whole document, including complex elements such as tables, enabling document classification, data extraction, and high-quality export to digital formats.
Automate document classification and routing with AI classification models that analyze both text and image features through multimodal learning to recognize and organize documents. Once classified, documents are automatically assigned an AI extraction model for processing. By incorporating human-in-the-loop input, the models learn from user corrections and automatically adjust, continuously improving their performance over time.
Extract data from structured, semi-structured, or unstructured business documents using advanced AI and machine learning that mimic human understanding. ABBYY IDP reads and understands documents in over 200 languages and effortlessly handles complex tables, handwriting, checkmarks, barcodes, signatures, and more.
Automatic validation cross-checks information against databases and ensures compliance with built-in validation rules. Our low-code design approach gives you the flexibility to use pre-trained models available in the ABBYY Marketplace, tweak these ready-to-use models for the unique needs of your organization, or train custom models tailored to your specific documents.
Combine purpose-built AI with the flexibility of Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance document workflows. This hybrid approach enables advanced summarization, contextual reasoning, and automated communication, unlocking new efficiencies in a secure and scalable environment.
Keep refining your processes through human-in-the-loop (HITL) review, which lets subject matter experts step in to manually check and correct document classes as well as extracted data through a convenient interface. This optional step is crucial when 100% accuracy is required or when a document doesn’t meet the specific validation rules established for each AI model. Each time a correction is made, the AI models improve through continuous learning and get more accurate.
The advanced quality analytics provided by ABBYY Document AI provide a clear understanding of your document processing performance and track improvements in straight-through processing rates over time. With actionable insights and tailored recommendations, you can pinpoint the root causes of problems and take effective actions to improve data extraction quality of the models for superior business outcomes within your IDP workflow.
ABBYY Document AI automatically exports data in the required format to meet your needs—whether JSON, CSV, XML, or others. The data is then sent seamlessly to your automation systems and business applications through simple REST API or pre-built connectors into your downstream processes.
Get answers to frequently asked questions about IDP and learn what it can do for your business.
Break through automation barriers and achieve real business impact with our checklist for successful IDP implementation.
Banks and financial Institutions can expedite onboarding, trade finance, and more with AI-powered document input.
Get answers to frequently asked questions about IDP and learn what it can do for your business.
Break through automation barriers and achieve real business impact with our checklist for successful IDP implementation.
Banks and financial Institutions can expedite onboarding, trade finance, and more with AI-powered document input.
Document input is a process that collects and prepares all your documents for processing, whichever way they get to your business. No need to worry about different file types or languages: Intelligent document processing (IDP) handles it all, turning even unstructured documents like contracts into usable data.
This ingestion process paves the way for powerful insights and efficient workflows. By streamlining inputs from various sources, you gain easy access to the information you need in the form of normalized, structured data. In essence, your files are transformed into actionable intelligence, driving faster, smarter decision-making across your organization.
With the versatile document input capabilities businesses have access to a variety of robust options for integrating their systems with the ABBYY IDP platform. They can connect third-party systems using a REST API or pre-built connectors, allowing for real-time document processing. Additionally, the platform can be set up to monitor shared and email folders.
Moreover, mobile document capture can be seamlessly incorporated into customer-facing processes and applications, ensuring that documents are efficiently sent for processing.
Document input works with any type of document, including both highly structured forms and less organized formats, such as emails or agreements. Document input can turn both digital and paper items into useful data so the same information can be easily shared across your whole company.
Using a REST API or pre-built connectors, you can connect any third-party application with ABBYY IDP to capture incoming documents. Whether it's business process automation (BPA) solutions, robotic process automation (RPA) platforms, chatbots, copilots, or industry-specific software, ABBYY IDP processes documents and returns structured, actionable data.
Document input is the gateway to unlocking the power of your data. It's the crucial first step in IDP, where your various records are gathered and brought into the IDP system. Once inside, these documents are sorted, their key information is extracted, and the data readied to be put to work.
Without effective document input, the rest of the IDP magic can't happen. It's the essential foundation for AI-powered tools to truly understand your data and extract the valuable insights that fuel your business.
Since business processes vary widely and require documents to take many different paths, ABBYY’s advanced IDP solutions provide multi-channel input and document capture capabilities to support any document workflow—from very transactional real-time capture with mobile devices to high-volume batch scanning for back-office automation. Simple API and pre-built connectors allow integration with any business system.
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Get answers to frequently asked questions about IDP and learn what it can do for your business.
Break through automation barriers and achieve real business impact with our checklist for successful IDP implementation.
Banks and financial Institutions can expedite onboarding, trade finance, and more with AI-powered document input.