How should teams validate extracted document fields?
Keep the original page and a link from each extracted field to its text and location. Check relationships that matter, such as a total's row label and neighboring values, against document-specific rules. Escalate ambiguity for human review instead of treating a confident transcription as semantic verification.
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OCR Can Read Every Word and Still Misread the DocumentText extraction is only part of document understanding: layout, association and provenance decide what each number belongs to.
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