Straight Through Processing - Document Automation Achieving STPfor ComplexTasks What about more complex tasks that cannot be completely automated (like the loan origination process discussed in the previous section)? Unlike simple tasks that can be easily automated and verified, the process of locating and extracting 20-30 data elements on a document rarely can be summarized as a simple pass/fail. Even if all the data on a single document could be located and extracted, what type of validation can be accomplished to determineifitisallcorrect? The process of achieving STP on complex document-oriented processes is not as straightforward as simpler tasks. Unfortunately, this complexity has resulted in a significant amountoforganizations using advanced capture solutions to automate tasks only to find that they need to verify every single result. The upside is that while the answers to achieving STP are not as straightforward as what you expect with simpler tasks, it is definitely possible. It just requires a different approach: one based upon data science. 12