PEX Network’s key takeaways:
- IDC has analyzed 22 intelligent document processing (IDP) vendors.
- Vendors include ABBYY, Google, IBM, Rossum, AWS, Appian, and Microsoft.
- Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the modern IDP market.
Analyst firm IDC has assessed more than 20 intelligent document processing (IDP) providers in its new report IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Intelligent Document Processing Software 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment.
The study is a detailed assessment of the IDP market across structured, unstructured, and semi-structured documents/content through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain key methods for success and differentiation within the market.
Vendors that feature in the report include ABBYY, Google, IBM, Rossum, AWS, Appian, and Microsoft.
The IDP market is expected to grow to US$2.09 billion by 2026, according to Gartner. “The intelligent document processing market is expansive, with over 100 vendors, including from adjacent markets, offering full solutions or individual components,” read the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Document Processing Solutions.
IDC assesses more than 20 IDP vendors
The IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model evaluates the competitive strength of technology and service providers within a market. Using a rigorous qualitative and quantitative scoring methodology, it presents each vendor’s position in a single graphical view.
The framework enables meaningful comparison of suppliers’ offerings, capabilities, strategies, and success factors, while giving technology buyers a comprehensive view of vendor strengths and weaknesses.
In total, the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Intelligent Document Processing Software 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment study assesses 22 IDP vendors. In addition to the providers listed above, companies include:
- Automation Anywhere
- Hyperscience
- SAP
- EdgeVerve
- Iron Mountain
- OpenText
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IDP in the generative AI era
“We are firmly in the generative AI era, with the agentic future rapidly approaching, and IDC has seen a significant evolution in the capabilities and strategies offered by IDP software vendors,” stated Andrew Gens, senior research analyst, computer vision AI tools and technologies at IDC.
Challenges have shifted from addressing the processing of unstructured document use cases to extracting meaningful insights from documents, regardless of structure, and building out end-to-end automation workflows that can fuel enterprise processes with reliable and insightful data, he added.
“Driven by the ongoing development of new and more sophisticated multimodal generative AI models, the evaluated vendors have been rapidly extending their existing offerings or launching entirely new IDP software products to capitalize on these models' capabilities. With the emergence of so many swiftly advancing AI technologies, many customers are having to race to keep up.”