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Document AI.

Turn documents into structured data — forms, tables, invoices, contracts — grounded in the model, not brittle templates.

❂ Applied AI
Overview

Extraction, classification and validation that turn PDFs and scans into structured data — layout-aware and grounded in the model, so it reads a document it's never seen instead of breaking on a new template.

Where it sits
Category
Applied AI
Deployment
Managed → air-gapped
Governance
IAM · encryption · audit

Template-based extraction breaks on the document it's never seen.

The traditional way to turn documents into data is to build a template per layout — and it works right up until a vendor changes their invoice, a new form arrives, or a scan is skewed. Then someone rebuilds the template. Aether's document AI is layout-aware and grounded in the model, so it reads a document by understanding it, not by matching a fixed shape — a new invoice format is just another document, not a project.

Extract, classify and validate — then route what it isn't sure about.

It pulls key-value pairs, tables and line items with positional awareness, classifies and routes documents by type, and validates the result — checking that totals reconcile, dates are sane and references resolve. Crucially, low-confidence fields are sent for human review rather than guessed, so the output you trust is genuinely trustworthy and the things that need a person actually reach one.

On the platform, so extraction flows straight into the work.

Because it runs where your data and the model live, an extracted invoice doesn't get exported to a separate system to be useful — it lands in the warehouse, triggers a workflow, or feeds an agent, under one identity and one audit trail. And it deploys in your boundary, which matters when the documents are contracts, KYC packets or medical records.

Worked example

Extract structured fields from any invoice layout, validate the totals, and route only what's uncertain to a person.

import { aether } from "@aether/sdk";

const doc = await aether.documents.extract({
  file: invoicePdf,                 // any layout, no template
  fields: ["vendor", "total", "due_date", "line_items[]"],
  validate: "line_items.sum == total",
});

if (doc.confidence < 0.9) routeToReview(doc);   // not guessed
else postToLedger(doc.fields);

No template to build or maintain: the model reads the invoice whatever its layout, checks that the line items sum to the total, and sends the genuinely ambiguous ones to a human instead of silently guessing.

How it works

Three steps to running.

01
Upload a document

PDF, scan or photo — no template to build first.

02
Extract & classify

Layout-aware key-values, tables and line items, sorted by type.

03
Validate & review

Totals and references checked; low-confidence fields routed to a human.

What you get

Document AI, in full.

Layout-aware extraction

Key-value pairs, tables and line items, positionally aware.

Classification & routing

Sort and route documents by type automatically.

Validation

Check totals, dates and references; flag what doesn't reconcile.

Human-in-the-loop

Low-confidence fields routed for review, not guessed.

API-first

Provision it in a few lines.

Every service is reachable from the same SDK, CLI and infrastructure-as-code — one identity, one bill, one audit trail across the whole catalog.

# Provision document ai on Aether Cloud
aether applied-ai create \
  --service document-ai \
  --name app \
  --region us-1 \
  --deploy managed   # or vpc | on-prem | air-gapped
Specs

At a glance.

Inputs
PDF · scan · photo
Extraction
KV · tables · line items
Templates
None required
Validation
Built-in reconciliation
Review
Human-in-the-loop
Use cases

Built for real work.

01

Invoice & receipt processing

02

Contract analysis

03

Onboarding & KYC

Why one platform

On one model, not stitched together.

The usual stack runs document ai in one product, the model in another and the data in a third — and the seams between them are the cost. Aether Cloud runs it on the same platform that serves the model, governs your identity and deploys into your boundary, with the rest of the catalog one hop away.

One platform

No stitching a vector DB to one place, a warehouse to another and a model to a third — document ai sits next to the rest of the catalog, one identity, one bill.

The model is here

The provider that runs Aether runs your document ai — so the data and the model never leave the same governed boundary to talk to each other.

Built on demand

Need a capability that isn’t here yet? The model writes and deploys it into the same boundary — the catalog is a starting point, not a ceiling.

FAQ

Good to know.

How does this compare to AWS Textract or Google Document AI?

Layout-aware extraction and classification — grounded in the model, so it reads a document it's never seen instead of breaking on a new template.

Do I need to train per form?

No — it generalizes across layouts; few-shot specialization is there when you want higher accuracy on a specific form.

How are mistakes handled?

Low-confidence fields are routed for human review, not silently guessed.

Deploy anywhere

Your boundary, your choice.

Managed
Your VPC
On-prem
Air-gapped / sovereign

Run Document AI on Aether Cloud.

Turn documents into structured data — forms, tables, invoices, contracts — grounded in the model, not brittle templates. Deployable managed, in your VPC, on-prem or fully air-gapped — talk to us about the configuration your workloads and your boundary require.