# document intelligence insights

Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged document intelligence.

Canonical: https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/document-intelligence/

## Topics
- [Agent systems](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/agents/): Agent runtimes, handoffs, tools, and the boundaries that make them reviewable.
- [Governance](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/governance/): Policy, identity, authorization, approvals, and evidence for consequential work.
- [Infrastructure](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/infrastructure/): Model serving, sandboxes, tool services, and deployment boundaries.
- [Models](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/models/): Inference choices, local serving, compatibility, and operational tradeoffs.

## Stories
- [IBM released Granite-Docling-258M as a compact document-conversion VLM](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ibm-granite-docling-258m-september-2025/)
  IBM released Granite-Docling-258M on September 24, 2025, an Apache-2.0 258M vision-language model for structured document conversion.
- [PaddleOCR 3.0 put OCR, document parsing and extraction into one versioned release](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-paddleocr-3-document-parsing-may-2025/)
  PaddlePaddle released PaddleOCR 3.0 on May 20, 2025, adding PP-OCRv5, PP-StructureV3 and PP-ChatOCRv4 with a revised deployment stack.
- [Ai2 released olmOCR as an open 7B vision model for PDF extraction](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ai2-olmocr-pdf-extraction-february-2025/)
  Ai2 released olmOCR on February 25, 2025, pairing a fine-tuned 7B vision-language model with an open PDF-to-Markdown pipeline.
- [Mistral OCR made document extraction an API and evidence-retention problem](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-mistral-ocr-document-api-march-2025/)
  Mistral introduced its OCR API on March 6, 2025, for extracting ordered text and images from PDFs and images into document-aware workflows.


## More information

- [Documentation index](https://rangoon.ai/llms.txt)
- [AI access and policies](https://rangoon.ai/ai/)
- [Source repository](https://github.com/hypler-dev/rangoon)
