From the course: Complete Guide to Azure AI for ML Engineers by Microsoft Press

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Discover document processing

Discover document processing

- [Instructor] All right, now that we've got the fundamentals of machine learning covered, let's jump into some of the AI use cases that we'll be walking through throughout this course. So, the first one that we'll take a look at is document processing. This is going to automate the process of extracting, understanding, and saving data that we have in text. So, when you think about data processing, think about going through thousands of invoices really fast to find trends in user and customer behavior, or think about processing a lot of different types of forms or PDFs, or even looking through images to figure out what text is relevant that we need for a certain application. So, this is actually going to be an extension of optical character recognition. And this is one of the first forms of data processing that happened with PDFs because as you know, sometimes PDFs don't come in a format that's easy to grab text from. So, OCR was the process of treating a PDF like an image and…

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