AI for Business: Automate Document Processing with IDP + AWS

San Diego AI Document Automation Community
We're a community of engineers, operations folks, and business leaders who are all wrestling with the same problem: too many documents, too much manual processing.
This group is a place to compare notes, share what's working (and what isn't), and learn from each other. We meet online and in person around San Diego for:

• Show and tell sessions where members demo document automation projects they've built, warts and all
• Hands-on workshops on tools like OCR, Intelligent Document Processing, generative AI, and AWS services
• Open discussions on real challenges: messy scans, handwriting, validation, human-in-the-loop review, compliance
• Networking hangouts to meet others in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and government who deal with document-heavy workflows

Whether you're just starting to explore automation or you've already got pipelines in production, you'll find people here worth talking to. Bring your questions, your war stories, and your hardest documents.
No sales pitches. Just practitioners helping practitioners.

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## Event Description

Beyond OCR: How AI Actually Processes Documents (Discussion + Demo)
Many of us work in organizations that still handle records, claims, applications, and invoices by hand. This session is a chance to dig into how modern AI approaches the problem, and to compare experiences with others tackling the same thing.

What we'll explore together

• How Intelligent Document Processing goes beyond traditional OCR
• How AI models extract, classify, validate, and route information
• Real-world examples from healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and government
• Where automation works well and where humans still need to stay in the loop

Format
A short walkthrough and live demo, followed by open Q&A and group discussion. Bring your own document processing headaches: we'll talk through approaches as a group, and you'll leave with ideas you can test in your own organization.

Who will enjoy this
Anyone curious about document automation: developers, ops leads, analysts, or leaders evaluating AI. No prior AI experience needed.
Come with questions, leave with new ideas and a few new contacts who work on the same problems you do.

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