Welcome to the Product Club Recap!
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HOSTS
Oli Morris, Principal Developer Evangelist
Alexander Timoshenko, Product Manager, Director
TOPIC
Already familiar with Document Automation? This recap session explores advanced use cases and gives you a closer look at the new capabilities introduced in the Document Automation .36 release. It’s a great opportunity to see what’s new and how you can put it into practice.
LATEST WITH .36 UPDATE
Alex introduced key updates in the latest release of Document Automation (Version 36), including:
- New OCR Providers: Introduction of a new OCR provider, Digital PDF Extractor, which is designed for digital PDFs to improve reliability and speed compared to traditional OCR engines
- Enhanced Table Extraction: Demonstration of extracting data from invoices with multiple tables, including the use of generative AI to help identify fields without headers
HANDS ON DEMO
Alex showcased a live demonstration of the Document Automation process, highlighting:
- The creation of a learning instance to configure document extraction.
- The option to enable "test mode," allowing for iterative testing and validation without affecting production data.
- Real-time troubleshooting of extraction challenges, particularly focusing on documents with complex table structures.
ROADMAP FEATURES
Alex shared upcoming features planned for future releases, including:
- Cloud Extraction Service: A new task type for faster document extraction utilizing powerful cloud resources.
- Adaptive Layout-Specific Gen AI Prompts: Allowing more tailored prompts for document layouts to improve extraction accuracy.
- Batch Testing Capability: Enabling users to upload and test multiple documents simultaneously to assess accuracy and identify areas for improvement.
- Native Checkbox Support: Enhancements for handling checkboxes and checkbox groups to streamline data extraction from forms.
SESSION Q&A
Q: For On-Prem version do we have option to connect to the local LLM model or download LLM and deploy to make use of document extraction?
A: This is available on-prem and we cover this in our Docs site.
Q: Do we have option to make use of RAG for domain specific knowledge?
A: We do as part of our AI Tools. In a Document Automation context this would need to be combined into a process via Process Composer, perhaps with an AI Agent (check out our APA Training Camp)
Q: Does the new Test Mode caching logic mean that after the first document gets processed that the next subsequent documents that get processed will be faster? Imagine that is on the roadmap?
A: Absolutely. The initial download can be large and on-device caching offers a huge performance improvement.
