microsoft/knowledge-extraction-recipes-forms

Retrieving information from documents and forms has long been a challenge, and even now at the time of writing, organisations are still handling significant amounts of paper forms that need to be scanned, classified and mined for specific information to enable downstream automation and efficiencies. Automating this extraction and applying intelligence is in fact a fundamental step toward digital transformation that organisations are still struggling to solve in an efficient and scalable manner. An example could be a bank that receives hundreds of kilograms of very diverse remittance forms a day that need to be processed manually by people in order to extract a few key fields. Or medicinal prescriptions need to be automated to extract the prescribed medication and quantity. Typically organisations will have built text mining and search solutions which are often tailored for a scenario, with baked in application logic, resulting in an often brittle solution that is difficult and expensive to maintain.