Preface
The volume of documents is exponentially growing in the digital era, and it has become paramount to process this data accurately and in an accelerated manner to get value out of it. Most often, the data is in raw document format, and being able to process these documents in an accelerated manner is critical to meeting the growing business needs, but legacy document processing doesn’t meet this growing demand.
This book is a comprehensive guide that takes you through the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and the core concepts required to process any type of document. You will also obtain hands-on experience with popular Python libraries for automating document processing. This book not only starts with the basics but also takes you through real industry use cases – for document processing in the healthcare industry to deliver value-based care, for claims processing in the insurance industry, and for accelerating loan application processing in the financial industry. That way, you are learning how to apply your skill sets to practical problems.
By the end of this book, you will have mastered the fundamentals of document processing with ML using practical implementations.