Document Automation Architectures and Technologies: A Survey
It provides a comprehensive review for researchers in document automation, addressing a gap in academic literature, but is incremental as a survey.
This paper surveys academic research on document automation (DA) to reduce manual effort in document generation by integrating inputs and assembling templates, identifying state-of-the-art architectures and technologies and suggesting new research opportunities with AI advances.
This paper surveys the current state of the art in document automation (DA). The objective of DA is to reduce the manual effort during the generation of documents by automatically integrating input from different sources and assembling documents conforming to defined templates. There have been reviews of commercial solutions of DA, particularly in the legal domain, but to date there has been no comprehensive review of the academic research on DA architectures and technologies. The current survey of DA reviews the academic literature and provides a clearer definition and characterization of DA and its features, identifies state-of-the-art DA architectures and technologies in academic research, and provides ideas that can lead to new research opportunities within the DA field in light of recent advances in artificial intelligence and deep neural networks.