What is the Exact difference between pdf automation and document understanding

[chowdaryharitha55]

What is the Exact difference between pdf automation… and document understanding…?

pdf automation meaning
document understanding

[lrtetala (Lakshman Reddy)]

Hi @chowdaryharitha55

Please refer this thread

Difference between document understanding vs PDF activities

Hi @Salman_Faries , The Answer to “If both are doing the same” is a Big NO. But we can say the PDF activities does only the part of extracting the text whenever the Inputs/Document are PDF or Digital PDFs. However, there’s a Lot more to Document Understanding than just extracting the text. Mainly Document Understanding is used when the dataset or document set contains a lot of different templates (Semi-Structured, Ex: Invoices from Different Vendors) and maybe also the case where there are …

Document Understanding - Introduction

Activities - Read PDF Files

Document Understanding - Document Understanding

Hope this helps!!

[vinitha_yachamaneni]

Hi @chowdaryharitha55

1. PDF Automation:

• PDF automation involves the handling and manipulation of PDF files using automation tools.
• It typically focuses on tasks such as reading, creating, modifying, or extracting data from PDF documents.

2. Document Understanding:

• Document understanding, on the other hand, refers to the advanced process of comprehensively analyzing and extracting data from various types of documents, including PDFs, images, and scanned documents.
• Document understanding involves using AI and machine learning algorithms to extract structured data from unstructured documents. It encompasses tasks like intelligent document classification, data extraction, and validation.

[Dilli_Reddy (Candy Reddy)]

@chowdaryharitha55

hi

PDF Automation in UiPath is mainly about working with PDF files, like extracting text and data, searching for specific content, and performing tasks like splitting and merging PDFs.

Document Understanding, on the other hand, is a more advanced capability that goes beyond PDFs. It’s about extracting structured data from various unstructured documents, using machine learning for classification and data extraction, and validating the data. It can handle different types of documents, not just PDFs, and is more adaptable and versatile for automating document-related tasks.