Every document, form, email, or text that enters a business process is a potential use case for intelligent document extraction and processing (IDEP). IDEP solutions convey agreements, transmit information, notify parties, and bring order and structure to millions of transactions. Enterprises have been extracting fields from incoming content for decades, but AI in the form of natural language processing (NLP) and automation such as robotic process automation (RPA) have accelerated IDEP adoption. Tech and data architecture leaders can use this report to discover 10 IDEP lessons that will inform their buying choices and improve their chances of successful IDEP deployments.