Global Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Market: The SPARK Plus™ Perspective by QKS Group
1. Introduction: Re-Architecting the Intelligence in the global IDP Market The global IDP market has steadfastly emerged as a core pillar of the ‘intelligent automation’ arena, evolving from ‘simple OCR’ capabilities, to being the ‘cognitive engine ’ of the modern enterprises . The QKS Group defines Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) as an advanced technology that leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and increasingly Generative AI (GenAI), to automate critical processes like - ingestion, interpretation, extraction, classification, enrichment, and routing of data, from the - structured, semi-structured, and unstructured document types. Modern IDP platforms are advancing towards the usage of ‘autonomous document agents’ , integrating the template-free approach, along with the multimodal extraction, imbibing the few-shot learning, and the conversational interfaces for ‘near-zero-touch’ ope...