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README.md

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 We create various interesting assets in our line of work, which we believe should be open-source and accessible to everyone. We want to share our architecture patterns for solutions, technical step-by-step guides, and code examples. We simplify how we work internally in Oracle, while also sharing access to the same assets with our customers, implementation partners, and everyone interested. We want to be transparent on how we work and also grow the quality of our assets and best practices, with contributions coming from the community.
 
-## Installation
+## Getting Started
 
 This is not a single software product repository, but a collection of various assets (code or not) in one single 'larger' repository. Thus, you won't 'install' this repository; rather, search it to find various interesting assets.
 
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 ## Examples
 
-As per the previous chapter on how to install, we have various assets in this one larger repository. If you find a code asset, it will have a README file for installation, documentation, and example purposes.
+As per the previous chapter on *Getting Started*, we have various assets in this one larger repository. If you find a code asset, it will have a README file for installation, documentation, and example purposes.
 
-See the bullet points from the chapter *Installation* list as an example on how to navigate the repository.
+See the bullet points from the chapter *Getting Started* list as an example on how to navigate the repository.
 
 ## Help
 

ai/ai-document-understanding/README.md

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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Document Understanding is an AI service that enables developers to extract text, tables, and other key data from document files through APIs and command-line interface tools. With OCI Document Understanding, you can automate tedious business processing tasks with prebuilt AI models and customize document extraction to fit your industry-specific needs.
 
-Reviewed: 11.06.2025
+Reviewed: 22.09.2025
 
 
 # Table of Contents
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 - [Introduction to OCI Document Understanding](https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/dbpm/livelabs/view-workshop?wid=3585)
 - [Search Documents stored in Object Storage using Opensearch, Generative AI, Semantic Search, RAG](https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/dbpm/livelabs/view-workshop?wid=3762)
 - [Develop with Oracle AI and Database Services: Gen, Vision, Speech, Language, OML, Select AI, RAG and Vector](https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/dbpm/livelabs/view-workshop?wid=3874&clear=RR,180&session=10041712875174)
-- [Search Documents and Images stored in Object Storage using OpenSearch, AI Vision, Text Recognition](https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/dbpm/livelabs/view-workshop?wid=3442)
+- [Oracle Integration 3 - Build Intelligent Invoice Automation with OCI Document Understanding and OIC Decisions](https://livelabs.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/dbpm/livelabs/view-workshop?wid=4193)
+- [Automate Invoice handling using Oracle APEX and OCI Document Understanding](https://livelabs.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/dbpm/livelabs/view-workshop?wid=3948)
 
 ## GitHub
 
+- [Enhanced Document Understanding with LLMs](https://github.com/oracle-devrel/technology-engineering/tree/main/ai/generative-ai-service/Document%20Processing%20with%20GenAI/doc-understanding-and-genAI)
+    - A Streamlit-based app comparing and expanding on traditional Document Understanding (OCI DU) + LLM approach vs. a multimodal LLM for extracting structured data from documents (PDFs, images). This is is aimed at highlighting the strengths of each of our services and the power GenAI brings in combining these approaches for the best handling of complex documents.
 - [Invoice Document Processing from Gmail into ERP systems using OCI Document Understanding & Oracle Integration Cloud](https://github.com/oracle-devrel/technology-engineering/tree/main/ai/ai-document-understanding/ai-email-invoice)
+    - Explore how we can process invoice documents from Gmail into an ERP System in real-time using OCI Document Understanding and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). This solution combines a low-code approach to capture Gmail messages in real-time with Google Cloud Pub/Sub Adapter, extract invoice data with AI Document Understanding and create invoices in ERP systems using Oracle Integration Cloud ERP adapters.
+- [Document Evaluation Tool using OCI Generative AI, Document Understanding & Integration Cloud](https://github.com/oracle-devrel/technology-engineering/tree/main/ai/generative-ai-service/doc-evaluation-genai)
+    - Explore how to make a handy tool that helps to evaluate documents using Oracle Generative AI, OCI Document Understanding, and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). This application combines a low-code approach to orchestrate LLM AI services and applications using Oracle Integration Cloud and Generative AI prompting techniques for tasks like document key criteria extraction, summarization, and evaluation.
 
 ## Architecture Center
 
-- [Search documents and images stored in Object Storage using OpenSearch, OCI Vision, Text Recognition](https://docs.oracle.com/en/solutions/oci-opensearch-vision/index.html)
 - [Enable a Low Code Modular LLM App Engine using Oracle Integration and OCI Generative AI](https://docs.oracle.com/en/solutions/oci-generative-ai-integration/index.html)
-- [Use OCI Vision + DU to extract data from images and scanned documents](https://docs.oracle.com/en/solutions/ai-vision-extract-data/index.html)
+- [Process unstructured documents intelligently](https://docs.oracle.com/en/solutions/oracle-integration-process-documents-intelligently/index.html)
+- [Implement an API management platform for enterprise AI models and services](https://docs.oracle.com/en/solutions/implement-ai-model-api-management/index.html)
+- [Data platform - decentralized data platform](https://docs.oracle.com/en/solutions/data-platform-decentralized/index.html)
 
 # Useful Links
 
 - [AI Solutions Hub](https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/solutions/)
 - [Document Understanding Oracle.com Page](https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/document-understanding/)
 - [Document Understanding Documentation](https://docs.oracle.com/iaas/document-understanding/document-understanding/using/home.htm)
-- [Announcing OCI Document Understanding custom model support (June 14, 2023)](https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/post/oci-document-understanding-custom-model-support)
-- [Announcing OCI Document Understanding service (December 8, 2022)](https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/post/announcing-oci-document-understanding-service)
-- [Automate with documents using AI](https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/post/automate-documents-using-ai)
-- [Oracle Learning YouTube Playlist - OCI Document Understanding Service](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCk3OyNwIzt1x62El9gGGeNaQr0va58c)
-- [GitHub Examples](https://github.com/oracle-samples/oci-data-science-ai-samples/tree/master/labs/ai-document-understanding)
+- [Other GitHub Examples](https://github.com/oracle-samples/oci-data-science-ai-samples/tree/master/labs/ai-document-understanding)
 
 ## Customer Stories
 
 - [Trailcon Leasing: Low-code and AI for Automating Invoice Processing & Approval Workflow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsbNU6xdQPw)
 - [Careem increases efficiency and cuts invoice process time 70% with Oracle AI](https://www.oracle.com/customers/careem-case-study/)
+- [DMCC reshapes HR and enterprise operations with Oracle GenAI](https://www.oracle.com/customers/dmcc-case-study/)
 
 # Reusable Assets Overview
 
 ## Cloud Coaching
 - [Cloud Coaching - Boost Your Oracle AI Services](https://youtu.be/VVWTqqlIEhg)
     - Learn how to Develop a Multi-Chain Document Evaluation Apps with Oracle Generative AI, Document Understanding, and Integration Cloud.
+    - Integrate OCI AI Speech Service and Generative AI Summarization with Oracle Integration Cloud and Visual Builder
+    - Describe an image using OCI AI Vision, Generative AI Service and Oracle Integration
 
 - [Cloud Coaching - How to code and develop a Web (or Mobile) Application with Visual Builder that uses and leverages OCI Document Understanding Service](https://youtu.be/0oHixpA9JDc?si=3CWh0d2RpuEzzLKU)
     - Learn how to create applications that read, modify, and classify documents with a couple of clicks using our low code development platform and some of the OCI AI services offering
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     - [Oracle AI Invoice Handling Solution](https://github.com/oracle-devrel/oci-ai-invoice-handling)
 
 - [Cloud Coaching - Low Code Modular RAG-based Knowledge Search Engine using Oracle GenAI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkVomurY_0Q)
-    - In this coaching session, you’ll learn how to use low-code integration with Oracle Integration Cloud to integrate and orchestrate social media channels like WhatsApp, Business channels like a Web Application built in Oracle Visual Builder, productivity channels like OCI Object Storage, local large and small language models (LLMs), and vector databases to ingest live data into the RAG-based Knowledge Search Engine store. 
+    - In this coaching session, you’ll learn how to use low-code integration with Oracle Integration Cloud to integrate and orchestrate social media channels like WhatsApp, Business channels like a Web Application built in Oracle Visual Builder, productivity channels like OCI Object Storage, local large and small language models (LLMs), and vector databases to ingest live data into the RAG-based Knowledge Search Engine store.
+    - You'll use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Document Understanding to extract information from different document types. Leverage OCI Generative AI for document summarization, generation, and synthesis of answers to questions on documents.
+    - Use OCI DB Cloud Service 23AI for Document Extraction, Vector Search, and Embedding (using ONNX local models to the DB) capabilities, and apply local OCI Data Science re-ranking models for better answers from advanced RAG.
 
-## Blogs
+- [Document Processing with Oracle Content Management, Integration Cloud & AI Document Understanding](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNxK7s-W8J0)
+    - Ingesting & indexing business documents like Contracts or Invoices into a content repository from various sources and then applying AI Document Understanding's document classification functionality as well as metadata extraction dramatically decreases manual effort for successfully processing documents for your business. Coupled with Oracle Integration Cloud's application integration capabilities that can accommodate integration flows between all services and a customer's application ecosystem, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides all the necessary tools to build such solutions in a low code development approach.
 
-- [Document Evaluation Tool using OCI Generative AI, Document Understanding & Integration Cloud](https://github.com/oracle-devrel/technology-engineering/tree/main/ai/generative-ai-service/doc-evaluation-genai)
-    - In this article, we'll explore how to make a handy tool that helps to evaluate documents using Oracle Generative AI, OCI Document Understanding, and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). This application combines a low-code approach to orchestrate LLM AI services and applications using Oracle Integration Cloud and Generative AI prompting techniques for tasks like document key criteria extraction, summarization, and evaluation.
+- [Integrating Oracle Digital Assistant with Document Understanding Using Oracle Integration Cloud](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S6eSUNDdc8)
+    - Join us for an insightful webinar on enhancing Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) by integrating Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Document Understanding Service with the help of Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
+    - Explore how to:
+        - Uploading documents within ODA
+        - Extract key-value data using Document Understanding models
+        - Leverage OIC for seamless document processing
 
-- [Create a Custom Document Understanding Model in OCI](https://blogs.oracle.com/analytics/post/create-a-custom-document-understanding-model-in-oci)
-    - Explore which are the steps to create custom models in Document Understanding and which models can be customized. Custom models are useful for specific business requirements, when pretrained models are not enough to solve those needs.
 
-- [Register and Invoke Custom Document Understanding Models in Oracle Analytics Cloud](https://blogs.oracle.com/analytics/post/register-and-invoke-custom-document-understanding-models-in-oac)
-    - Learn about custom Document Understanding models and how to register and invoke a custom key value extraction model from OAC.
+## Blogs
 
 - [OCI Document Understanding: Using OJET apps with TypeScript](https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/oci-document-understanding-using-ojet-apps-with-typescript)
 
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 ## Demos & Events
 
-- [Demo: Automate Invoice Handling - Oracle Integration Cloud & AI Document Understanding Service](https://youtu.be/k72CcNhmOjs)
-- [Smarter Apps with AI, OIC partner community webcast June 2023](https://videohub.oracle.com/media/Smarter+AI+Apps+with+OIC+partner+community+webcast+June+2023-1080p30/1_m2yjnvf9)
-    - OCI Language and Document Understanding are cloud-based AI services for performing sophisticated text analysis and extracting data from all kinds of documents e.g. Passport, Driving License, Invoices, Receipts, etc. You can use these services to build intelligent applications by leveraging REST APIs. You can use these services to build intelligent applications by leveraging REST APIs and automating using Oracle Integration Cloud. This allows you to process unstructured text for use cases such as sentiment analysis, service ticket classification, document extraction, and more using pre-trained models or your own custom models leveraging OCI Data Labelling.
-- [Document Understanding (Insurance Document) Key Value extraction demo](https://youtu.be/QsFqaRxtV1s)
-- [Cloud Customer Connect - How to Train Your Oracle AI Cloud Service Model](https://community.oracle.com/customerconnect/events/604740-oci-how-to-train-your-oracle-ai-cloud-service-model)
-    - In this session, we demonstrate how you can use OCI AI services, to create custom models using the data labeling, vision, and document understanding service.
+- [How to Use OCI Document Understanding's AI Service: Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3VUY3Yz324)
+    - Basic demo of OCI Document Understanding.
 - [Low-Code Modular RAG-Based Knowledge Search Engine](https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/low-code-modular-rag/)
+    - Use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Document Understanding to extract information from different document types. Leverage OCI Generative AI for document summarization, generation, and synthesis of answers. Use Oracle Base Database Service for document extraction, vector search, and embedding into the database using Open Neural Network Exchange local models and apply local OCI Data Science models for better answers from advanced RAG.
 - [Automate Invoice Handling with OCI Document Understanding](https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/automate-invoice-processing/)
+    - OCI Document Understanding and Oracle Integration to extract key information from invoices and load them into a system of records in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
 - [Processing Invoices in Email Using OCI Document Understanding and Oracle Integration Cloud](https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/processing-invoices-in-email/)
+    - This project will show you how to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Document Understanding and OCI Integration Services to process invoices in email, freeing up employees to handle more important tasks.
 - [Evaluating Documents using OCI Generative AI and OCI Document Understanding](https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/evaluating-document/)
+    - How to make a handy tool that helps evaluate documents using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI, OCI Document Understanding, and Oracle Integration Cloud. This tool can be useful in many situations: evaluating part specifications, helping check the RFP compliance in a vendor bid, or understanding what’s in a bunch of email attachments without opening each one. These are just a few examples for this powerful technology—it can be applied to any industry and is adaptable to departments including HR, procurement, marketing, customer service, and more.
 
 
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