Announcing Reducto’s Classify Endpoint: Route Documents Before Processing

Reducto has introduced the Classify endpoint, a lightweight tool designed to identify and categorize various document types, allowing for more efficient routing and processing in document management systems. This endpoint helps users manage mixed document intake by classifying documents into user-defined categories based on natural language descriptions, eliminating the need for fixed templates or custom classifiers. By determining document types upfront, Classify ensures that each document is processed with the appropriate schema and extraction settings, enhancing accuracy and reducing costs. It can distinguish between various documents, such as invoices or contracts, and even identify characteristics like handwritten text or watermarks. The tool is particularly useful in pipelines, allowing for dynamic routing decisions based on the classification results, thus optimizing document handling without requiring pre-sorting.