Current State of Document Ingestion and Understanding

This paper addresses the need to convert unstructured data, like documents and images, into structured formats to enhance accessibility and usability. It discusses various subtasks, such as document extraction, text summarization, and image identification, highlighting their significance in improving data understanding and accessibility. These tasks have practical applications in fields like medicine, education, information retrieval and decision-making. Overall, this paper explores the importance of structured data in our data-driven world. Exploration of such tasks in document ingestion and understanding sheds light on the technology available yet not used in a manner to ease the understanding and availability of documents to a commoner.