July 13, 2020

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Google previews Document AI for parsing forms: Just a catch-up with AWS and Azure?

Google previews Document AI for parsing forms: Just a catch-up with AWS and Azure?

Convert a jumble of documents into neatly structured data - if you are lucky Google Cloud Platform is previewing Document AI, a new service for automatic extraction of data from documents, such as key/value pairs in forms, with a choice of parsers and an option to use a custom model.…

Date: 2020-11-05

URL: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/11/05/google_introducing_document_ai_for/

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