Automation
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
OCR is the technology that converts images of printed or handwritten text into machine-readable characters. In AI document pipelines, OCR is the first stage of intelligent document processing — extracting raw text from scanned invoices, contracts, and forms before NLP and LLM layers classify, extract, and route the content.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in practice
OCR quality sets the ceiling for everything downstream: a misread total on a scanned invoice becomes a wrong entry in the ledger. Current pipelines often pass the page image to a multimodal model along with the OCR text, so tables, stamps and handwriting are read in context, and they route low-confidence fields to a person. Remolda builds these pipelines as document processing agents.
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