AI engineering glossary · Generative media multimodal
What is document understanding?
Document understanding (also called Document AI): Extracting meaning from scanned or digital documents by combining text, layout and visual cues such as tables, headings and stamps. Systems handle invoices, forms and reports and often use vision-language models.
Document understanding: an example
An invoice photo is parsed into vendor name, GST number, line items and total.
Related terms
- Optical character recognition
- Vision-language model
- Chart understanding
More Generative media multimodal terms
- DreamBooth
- Early fusion
- Evidence lower bound
- FastSpeech
- Flamingo
- Flow matching
- Forward diffusion process
- Fréchet Inception Distance
Where you learn it
Document understanding is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.