Content Understanding

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Now Assist in Document Intelligence is now Content Understanding. The ServiceNow® Content Understanding application brings multimodal generative AI to document and image processing. It extracts key data, answers natural-language questions, and generates summaries from unstructured text, tables, and images. Content Understanding is enhanced and updated in the Brazil release.

Content Understanding highlights for the Brazil release

  • Capture structured data from documents, review extracted values, and integrate the results into downstream processes.
  • Extract information, answer questions, and summarize documents and images to accelerate agentic workflows.
  • Use a multimodal tool to process documents and images within custom skills.
  • Enable document chat in Virtual Agent.
  • Summarize attached files linked to records on a large scale to facilitate comprehension and decision-making.

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Important: Content Understanding is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

Content Understanding features


  • Capture structured data from documents, validate extracted values in an intuitive review interface, and integrate the results into downstream processes.


  • Extract information, answer questions, and summarize documents and images to accelerate agentic workflows.


  • Read and summarize the content of uploaded documents, extract key information in near real-time, and significantly reduce manual triage time for agents.

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