AI Associate AI Fundamentals Practice Question
A company wants to use AI to automatically extract key information (e.g., invoice number, date, total amount) from scanned PDF invoices. Which AI capability should they use?
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Why each option matters
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Computer vision with optical character recognition (OCR)
Document scanning combined with OCR and NLP entity extraction can parse structured fields from documents. This falls under computer vision (OCR) and NLP.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Generative AI for text generation
Why it's wrong here
Generative AI creates new content, not extract specific fields from documents.
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Predictive analytics
Why it's wrong here
Predictive analytics forecasts future outcomes, not extraction of current data.
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Computer vision with optical character recognition (OCR)
Why this is correct
Correct: OCR converts scanned images to text, then NLP extracts fields.
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Sentiment analysis
Why it's wrong here
Sentiment analysis detects emotion, not structured data extraction.
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