Applied AI: Documents, Images, and Multimodal Input

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of November 1, 2026. An accounts payable team automates invoice processing with a vision model. It reads scanned invoices, extracts the vendor, date, and total, and posts them to the ledger. For three weeks it works beautifully. Then an auditor finds a $7,340 invoice paid as $1,340: a smudged 7 on a faxed scan, read confidently as a 1, and written into perfectly valid JSON. Down the h… Read More