Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know Every business runs on documents that were never meant for a computer to read — an invoice a supplier keyed into their own template, a scanned KYC packet a customer photographed on a phone, a UK bank statement exported to PDF with the numbers locked inside a rendered table. Turning that mess into clean, structured JSON your systems can act on is one of the oldest problems in enterprise software, and for the first time it is genuinely, boringly solvable. Vision-language models (VLMs) read a page the way a person does — layout, tables, stamps, handwriting and all — and hand you fields instead of pixels. The catch is that a model confident enough to read a smudged total is also confident enough to invent one, so the engineering that matters is no longer the reading. It…
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