AutomationWithout ManualIntervention In this section, we delve further into the important aspects of document automation, particularly the documents themselves, that determine the upper limit of automation. Essentially, the benefit of adding document automation to your processes all boils down to one question: how much work can I automate thatrequiresnomanualintervention? The coy (and accurate) answer is always, “it depends.” This is typically due to the nature of the task and the attributes of the documents. There are some general rules of thumb—built over years of experience with document automation projects— that you can use. These rules are based upon two common automationtasks:documentclassificationanddata extraction. Straight Through Processing - Document Automation 22