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Intelligent document processing (IDP)
Technology that extracts structured data from unstructured documents using AI, OCR, machine learning, and increasingly large language models.
Intelligent document processing (IDP) refers to systems that turn documents, invoices, purchase orders, forms, into structured data. Earlier IDP relied on OCR plus templates or trained models for each document type.
LLM-based IDP reads documents zero-shot, handling layouts it has never seen without per-layout setup. Order automation is a vertical application of IDP focused specifically on purchase orders and ERP order creation.