Document Understanding

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Document Understanding is an AI service that enables developers to extract text, tables, and other key data from document files through APIs and command line interface tools. With OCI Document Understanding, you can automate tedious business processing tasks with prebuilt AI models and customize document extraction to fit your industry-specific needs.

How OCI Document Understanding works


How Document Understanding works diagram, description below Select data from an OCI Object Storage bucket or a local file from your computer. Use OCI Document Understanding’s built-in models to automatically extract key information. Optionally, customize models to tailor the extraction to your data or use case. Store results in JSON format in the OCI Object Storage output bucket. Lastly, integrate with other OCI services, such as Oracle APEX and OCI Digital Assistant.

Use cases for OCI Document Understanding

Extract document information to store in Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, and integrate with other structured data or visual data in Oracle Analytics Cloud or other OCI services.

document analytics Select data from an OCI Object Storage input bucket or a local file from your computer. Use OCI Document Understanding’s built-in models to automatically extract key information. Optionally, customize models to tailor the extraction to your data or use case. Then use OCI Data Integration to store document data in Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and integrate with other structured data. Visualize data in Oracle Analytics Cloud. Use structured data to train new predictive models in OCI Data Science.

Extract key information from documents to populate extracted text, prefill fields, and perform other tasks.

document process automation Select data from an OCI Object Storage input bucket or a local file from your computer. Then use OCI Document Understanding’s built-in models to automatically extract key information. Optionally, customize models to tailor the extraction to your data or use case. Then integrate the data with other OCI services. You can populate extracted text in the backend of an Oracle application or prefill fields or data for an end user in a web application. Or trigger a business process or human review step in OCI Process Automation.
November 14, 2024

Create a Custom Document Understanding Model in OCI

Aravindan Thoppe Santharam, Sr. Principal Product Manager

OCI Document Understanding is an AI-powered service designed to help automate time-consuming document classification and data extraction tasks with prebuilt AI models, while also offering the flexibility to customize document extraction for specific requirements. This blog post covers how to create and train a custom key-value extraction model in OCI Document Understanding.

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