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Out of curiosity what is the state of the art today for extracting text or other data from scanned documents (forms, legal docs, receipts, etc) ?

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I don't have an exact answer but can tell you that Expensify still resorts to human parsing sometimes. How often "sometimes" is, I have no idea. I would guess a lot.

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