The difference between OCR and IDR is the difference between reading and understanding a document. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) only “reads” a document and transcribes it, creating a text representation of the scanned image. OCR does not interpret any further information about what the document is about or the actual data points.   IDP, Intelligent Document Processing uses AI to “understand” the document fields and classify the information. Machine learning models are used to train the AI to get faster and more accurate the more documents it reads.