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# Navigating Document Processing: Strategies for Successful Applications


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 12:35–12:45 (10 min)
- **Room:** Airstream (120)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Description

Document processing is integral to any kind of business. Ranging from invoice processing to technical manuals, any form of content and interaction is represented in a document.

In this talk, we’ll go through a few document processing concepts and strategies that will enable you and your applications to handle documents of all kinds.

We’ll cover the importance of document structure and metadata, and how they can be leveraged to improve document processing.
We’ll look at the role of automation in document processing, and how it can reduce manual effort and significantly increase accuracy.

## Speaker

### [Michaël Demey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@michael-demey)

Research Manager at Apryse


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- [Are you done yet? Mastering long-running processes in modern architectures](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/303-are-you-done-yet) — Bernd Ruecker
- [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/417-modern-data) — Matthias Niehoff