document intelligence in 2026

Treating document processing as a simple back-office utility is a fast track to obsolescence. Across healthcare, fintech, SaaS, cybersecurity, and edtech, basic data extraction only solves a fraction of the problem. Pulling text from complex forms is the easy part; the real operational bottlenecks are fragmented integrations, manual validation, and compliance risks that erode projected ROI. Document automation has moved beyond extraction to become foundational infrastructure. Enterprises are red