Automating document processing workflows

We have discussed in the previous chapter how Amazon Textract can help us digitize scanned documents such as PDF and images by extracting text from any document. We also covered how Amazon Comprehend can help us extract insights from these documents, including entities, Personal Identifiable Information (PII), and sentiments.

Now, these services can be used together in an architecture to automate the document processing workflows for most organizations, be it a financial organization or healthcare, which we will cover in Chapter 12, AI and NLP in Healthcare.

Let's start with a fictitious bank, LiveRight Pvt Ltd., whose customers are applying for home loans. We all know this loan origination process involves more than 400 documents to be submitted and reviewed by the bank before approval is forthcoming for your home loan. Automating this process will make it easier for banks as well as customers to get loans. The challenge with automating...