Document parsing

Fact

The process of pulling document content into a structure software can use.

In Plain Words

Doc parsing is the cafeteria tray return for messy files. A messy PDF goes in. Clean facts come out in neat bins.

It often comes before a knowledge base. It also helps contract and receipt bots.

Related Concepts

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Structured output
• Multimodal AI
• Large Language Model Operations

RAG
Doc parsing cleans the document first, so RAG can find the right content.

Structured output
Doc parsing turns pulled content into fields for the next program.

Multimodal AI
Doc parsing may use Multimodal skills to read scans and screenshots.

LLMOps
Doc parsing often sits in the data loading step for later AI apps.