What Is Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)?
Search Content Management, Thursday, March 27th, 2025
Intelligent document processing (IDP) is a type of workflow automation technology designed to automate the process of extracting data from physical papers and image-based documents. It does this by automating the scanning, extraction, categorization and organization of data from these documents.
Modern organizations typically deal with massive volumes of structured, unstructured and semistructured data. IDP can process each of these data types, even though it is traditionally more challenging to process and analyze unstructured data because it isn't organized in a predefined way.
IDP also uses technologies like AI, machine learning (ML) and optical character recognition (OCR) to automate document processing. This reduces the need for manual data entry and increases an organization's processing speed.