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Where this one gets misread
IDP bundles parsing, extraction and review, and vendors include different parts of it under the same name. The human review step is the one most often assumed by the buyer and least often specified by the seller.
Glossary
What is intelligent document processing?
Intelligent document processing turns documents into structured information, combining parsing and extraction with the human review that checks the result.
Updated 21 Aug 2026
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Questions to ask
Ask for a worked example on your own material, and the evidence needed to reproduce it.
- Which of the parts are included here?
- Where does a person enter the process?
- What is the throughput including the review step?
- What happens to a document that fails one stage?
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How Marella uses the term
We use “Intelligent document processing” only where a product mechanism or an evaluation method backs it up, and we say when the behaviour depends on how a deployment is configured.
- Backed by a product mechanism or an evaluation method
- Deployment differences flagged
What this page does not prove
- B1A definition is not a claim about how the product performs.
- B2Vendor implementations vary.
- B3Test the term against a representative workflow.
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