Document AI is the field of machine understanding of documents: parsing layout, reading tables and forms, extracting structured data, and answering questions ov
The field of machine understanding of documents: parsing layout, reading tables and forms, extracting structured data, and answering questions over contracts, invoices, claims, and reports. Vision-language models made it general, one model family now reads types that once needed custom templates.
Because documents are where business processes actually live, and keying them manually is pure toil. Automating extraction from invoices, claims, and contracts removes large amounts of repetitive human work, making it one of the highest-ROI AI categories of 2026.