# Document Parsing

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> Updated: 2026-05-13T20:56:44.954Z
> Type: glossary
> Category: bilgisayarli-goru
**TLDR:** A process that decomposes a document into text, structure, fields, and hierarchy to produce a machine-processable representation.

<p>Document parsing is one of the highest-level tasks in Document AI. Beyond extracting text, it attempts to understand in what context, section, and hierarchy that text appears. This allows contracts, reports, ID documents, and enterprise files to be turned into actionable data objects. It plays a central role in enterprise information-processing automation.</p>