How Veryfi’s Multimodal LLM Makes Any Document Actionable 

May 14, 2025
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How Veryfi’s Multimodal LLM Makes Any Document Actionable 

    Veryfi’s Anydocs is changing the document processing landscape. At the heart of this transformation lies the powerful combination of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), computer vision, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR), supercharged by combining visual context, spatial layout, and language understanding in a single step.

    Breaking Down Data Silos

    Traditional document processing systems operate in silos, they either understand text or images, but rarely both simultaneously and contextually. Our AnyDocs solution breaks these barriers by implementing Multimodal LLMs that can process and understand both visual elements and text within documents.

    The Multimodal Advantage

    The true power of Multimodal LLMs in AnyDocs comes from their ability to understand context across different data types. When processing an Bill of Lading, for instance, the system doesn’t just read text, it comprehends the document’s structure, identifies key fields by their position and format, and understands the relationships between visual elements and textual data.

    While OCR has been around for decades, integrating it with Multimodal LLMs elevates document processing to new heights. Traditional OCR simply converts images to text; our approach understands what that text means in context with the visual layout and document type.

    Below is an example of a Bill of Lading extraction using AnyDocs. The document contains tightly clustered fields, unlabeled line-item details, and complex relationships between entities like shipper, receiver, and cargo. While a standard OCR tool might extract raw text, it wouldn’t understand how the data points relate or how to structure them for downstream systems. In this example:

    • Total processing time: under 5 seconds
    • The document was auto-classified as a bill_of_lading
    • OCR confidence score: 0.97
    A Bill of Lading document on the left and its structured JSON extraction on the right, showing key fields like BOL number, carrier name, and cargo weight.

    Why This Matters for Tech Leaders

    For our clients, this technological advancement translates to quantifiable benefits:

    • Enhanced accuracy, even with complex or poor-quality documents
    • Faster processing times, from minutes to seconds
    • Immediate adaptability to new document types without extensive retraining

    We are seeing rapid adoption of our Anydocs Platform across:

    • Logistics: Automating Bills of Lading, customs forms, freight invoices
    • Field Operations: Real-time expense capture and receipt normalization from mobile devices
    • Construction: Linking receipts, POs, and invoices for accurate, automated reconciliation

    Final Takeaway 

    As Multimodal LLMs continue to evolve, we’re constantly improving AnyDocs to leverage these advancements. The future of document processing isn’t just about reading text, it’s about true document understanding across all modalities.

    For businesses drowning in paperwork and manual processes, the combination of Multimodal LLMs, computer vision, and OCR in Veryfi’s AnyDocs isn’t just a technological improvement, it’s a complete reimagining of how we interact with documents in the digital age.

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