Contellect glossary
Enterprise content, document AI, and automation glossary
What is this glossary?
A practical reference for the technologies used to capture, understand, govern, search, and automate enterprise content. Each definition explains the term in plain language and links to a deeper guide.
13 expert-reviewed termsCapture and understand
Terms for converting documents, scans, and files into structured, usable information.
What is Optical Character Recognition?
Optical character recognition (OCR) defined: converting images of text into machine-readable characters, and why OCR output alone is not structured data.
Read definition →DefinitionWhat is Document Classification?
Document classification defined: assigning documents to categories by type and context, the rule-based, ML and LLM approaches, and threshold design.
Read definition →DefinitionWhat is Document Data Extraction?
Document data extraction defined: pulling fields, tables and entities out of documents, template-based versus model-based methods, and human-in-the-loop review.
Read definition →DefinitionWhat is Intelligent Document Processing?
Intelligent document processing (IDP) defined: the pipeline that turns unstructured documents into validated structured data, and how it differs from OCR.
Read definition →DefinitionWhat is a Confidence Score?
Confidence score defined: what a model certainty value is and is not, why raw scores are not calibrated probabilities, and the three-zone pattern.
Read definition →Manage and govern
Terms for organizing, securing, retaining, and controlling enterprise content.
What is a Document Management System?
Document management system (DMS) defined: versioning, access control, retention, search and audit trail, and how DMS, ECM and content services relate.
Read definition →DefinitionWhat is a Content Services Platform?
Content services platform (CSP) defined: the analyst category that succeeded ECM, its API-first architecture, secure workspaces and federation trade-offs.
Read definition →DefinitionWhat is Records Management?
Records management defined: retention schedules, legal holds, record declaration, disposition and defensible destruction versus ordinary storage.
Read definition →DefinitionWhat is Information Governance?
Information governance defined: policy, ownership, classification, retention and disposal authority, and how it differs from records and data governance.
Read definition →DefinitionWhat is Document Lifecycle Management?
Document lifecycle management defined: the stages from capture to disposition, the transitions that carry obligations, and how it differs from workflow.
Read definition →DefinitionWhat is Digital Preservation?
Digital preservation defined: format obsolescence, fixity, migration and emulation, and why a backup is not preservation and digitization is not either.
Read definition →Ask and act
Terms for finding trusted answers and automating work with governed content.
What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) defined: grounding model answers in your own content, why citations matter, and enforcing access control at retrieval time.
Read definition →DefinitionWhat is Document Workflow Automation?
Document workflow automation defined: routing, approvals, exceptions and escalation, BPMN orchestration, and straight-through processing as the metric.
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