PRODUCTION SCENARIO
An insurer holds 250,000 scanned claim forms as PDFs. Claimed amounts and addresses appear only as text inside the scanned pages, and an analyst wants average claimed amounts by region.
How should these claim forms be classified?
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Answer: Unstructured data
A scanned page is unstructured: the amounts and addresses are there for a human to read but are not addressable as named fields, which is why document processing exists - it takes unstructured content from documents and turns it into structured data, meaning specific fields suitable for a database. Until that extraction runs there is nothing for a query to average by region. Calling it structured mistakes a consistent template for a schema; a shared layout does not make a field queryable. Semi-structured is the tempting near miss, but formats like JSON and XML carry machine-readable tags around their values, and a scan carries pixels. Labeled versus unlabeled is a different axis altogether, about whether outcomes are marked.
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