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by namanyayg 595 days ago
Offtopic but I'm so confused, how and why are there so many players in this space? Who even are the customers?
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Not off topic at all!

I can only speak to our experience. Once you get under the hood, you find that this is a hard problem to solve.

There are also a lot of workflows that involve documents in every sector and every function. In other words, the opportunity is massive.

For our product, our customers are either internal engineering teams or folks building products that require document extraction but don’t want to invest time in it.

Any company that works with invoices from a number of suppliers. We had to solve this problem at DigiBuild, where every supplier seemed to have totally unique invoice formats (and even the same product names could differ between two suppliers.)
It's a fairly "natural" case for AI, and there is tons and tons of people who need to pull structured data of out of PDFs for myriad reasons.