Document Analysis

What is Document Analysis

Document analysis is the process of examining a document to identify its structure, content, and context separating text, tables, images, and signatures, and recognizing how they relate to one another.

Two dimensions of document analysis

Document analysis encompasses two complementary dimensions:

• Structural analysis: identifies visual and organizational elements such as headers, paragraphs, tables, form fields, and page regions.
• Content analysis: interprets the meaning and relationships of the text and data within those structures.

Why document analysis matters in intelligent document processing (IDP)

Document analysis is a foundational step in intelligent document processing, providing the structural map that guides accurate data extraction.

A document that has been thoroughly analyzed delivers significantly higher processing accuracy than one treated as an undifferentiated text. This is because thorough analysis ensures:

• Its layout is understood.
• Its content regions are identified.
• Its field relationships are recognized.