New Tools to Use Documents as a Data Source

 

Continuing the general theme of earlier CTB articles here, here, and here on using documents as the database for context, analysis, and data entry; we saw an article from Infoworld.com today that lists tools by AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Document AI that “can parse your unstructured documents and produce structured information for all kinds of digital transformation use cases”.

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The review article: Document parsing in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud by Martin Heller posted on December 6, 2021 lists and discusses many tools including:

• Amazon AWS Textract - https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ 
• Amazon Comprehend - https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/ 
• Amazon Augmented AI - https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/ 
• Amazon Document Understanding Solution - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/11/introducing-document-understanding-solution/ 
• Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/overview?tabs=v2-1 
• Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer Studio - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/concept-form-recognizer-studio 
• Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer general document model - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/concept-general-document
• Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer layout model - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/concept-layout 
• Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer invoice model - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/concept-invoice 
• Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer receipt model - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/concept-receipt 
• Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer ID model (something we in the courts can definitely use) - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/concept-id-document 
• Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer business card model - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/concept-business-card 
• Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer custom and composed models = https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/concept-custom 
• Google Cloud Document AI with general, contract, lending, procurement processors. - https://cloud.google.com/document-ai 

We recommend that courts think about how these tools can supplement and perhaps replace some of our justice system's data capture and usage scenarios, in our humble opinion.