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Three labels get sold as if they were the same product. They are not. OCR turns pixels into text, IDP fits that text into a layout it already knows, and agentic document extraction reads the document, checks it against your records, and decides what happens next. Here is what changed between them, where each one still fits, and how to work out which of the three a vendor is actually selling you.
OCR was a great answer to a 1990s question. The trouble is that most teams still buy document automation as if reading the characters were the hard part. It is not. Here is what agentic document extraction does instead, and why the accuracy number on the vendor deck rarely means what your CFO thinks it means.
If anything in these posts matched a problem you’re sitting on, book a 30-minute discovery call. No deck, no fluff — just a working conversation about your highest-volume paperwork and whether agentic document extraction can make it disappear.
