From the course: Using Microsoft SharePoint Syntex for AI Document Management

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Form processing vs. document understanding models

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From the course: Using Microsoft SharePoint Syntex for AI Document Management

Form processing vs. document understanding models

- [Educator] So, I think this is interesting. Although Syntex can be used to analyze forms and other unstructured documents, the way it does so is totally different. With forms, there is a label and data area for all information being captured. A specific form will always be the same, right? But documents are different. There may be similar types of documents, contracts, statements of work, proposals, and so on, and they may even closely follow standard templates. But the format of the individual documents may vary widely even though they contain the same type of information. Syntex actually has two different types of models for handling the difference between structured and unstructured documents, form processing models and document understanding models. The first and most straightforward is the form processing model. The short version is that you train the model by giving it example forms to look at and defining fields.…

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