Decision Support
Compare Approaches
Understand how AI document intelligence compares to traditional methods. Each comparison breaks down the key differences to help you choose.
Template-free document intelligence
Conductor vs Traditional OCR
Traditional OCR requires templates for each document type. Conductor uses AI to understand context and meaning, handling new formats without configuration.
Setup time
Weeks
Hours
New doc types
Template required
Automatic
Layout changes
May break
Adapts
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Production-ready document platform
Conductor vs Raw LLMs
Raw LLM APIs require building document parsing, RAG pipelines, citation systems, and security layers. Conductor provides these out of the box.
RAG pipeline
Build yourself
Included
Citations
Build yourself
Page-level
Time to production
Months
Days
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