Marc Giombetti, Product Manager at Two Impulse, is hosting this episode of Real AI. Now., focused on Document Automation. To talk about that, we could not have a better guest than Benjamin von Ardenne.  If you’re wondering why, then you should know that Benjamin is currently aiming to unlock human talent by automating highly repetitive processing of complex documents using state-of-the-art AI. To do that, he co-founded lector.ai and has been its CEO since 2020. Before this adventure, he was a software developer at a Swiss fintech and developed apps for the healthcare industry. With a strong science educational background, Benjamin, or should we say Dr. Benjamin, has a Masters in Physics, as well as a PhD in Computational and Theoretical Biophysics from the Max Planck for Multidisciplinary Science, Göttingen (Germany).  The conversation starts by laying the much needed foundations: What’s document automation and why is it important. Then it takes off and covers the changes in the last decade and the usage of AI, and even going in deeper on the latter and discussing topics such as why a rule-based approach does not work. Benjamin also lets us know what is needed to start with document automation, covers privacy and security matters, and analyzes trends in the sector. Before calling it a day, there’s still time to get even more technical and talk a bit about ML Ops. If you’re working in a sector that relies heavily on documents, want to improve procedures or just broadly interested in AI, this will be the episode for you.