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Theres some time savings, but not a ton.

If theres 30 fields on a document @ 90% accuracy - each field would still need to be validated by a human because you can't trust that it is correct. So the O(n) human step of checking each field is still there, and for fields that are long strings that are pseudo-random looking (think account numbers, numbers on invoices and receipts, instrumentation measurement values, etc.) there is almost no time savings because the mental effort to input something like 015729042 is about the same as verifying it is correct.

At 100% accuracy you remove that need altogether.



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