Why is correct OCR not enough to understand a document?
OCR can recognize characters while losing their relationships. A number may be attached to the wrong row, column or label when layout is ignored. Reliable extraction needs reading order, spatial grounding and validation against the document's structure and intended use.
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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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