What is document extraction?
Document extraction is the process of turning information inside PDFs, scans, images, and other business documents into structured data that software can store, validate, route, and act on.
Short answer
Document extraction is the process of turning information inside PDFs, scans, images, and other business documents into structured data that software can store, validate, route, and act on.
What this means in practice
OCR reads text. Document extraction goes further: it identifies fields, tables, line items, dates, amounts, parties, clauses, identifiers, and the relationships between them.
In Cogneris, extraction returns structured JSON with confidence scores, source evidence, validation status, and audit metadata.