In the long arc of human record-keeping — from clay tablets to digital ledgers — the friction of translating documents into actionable understanding has always demanded labor. ABBYY's release of zero-shot document extraction within its Vantage platform marks a quiet but consequential step: enterprises can now present the system with document types it has never seen before, and it will interpret them without templates, training data, or human scaffolding. The announcement, framed by the company's VP of AI Strategy Max Vermeir, is less about a single feature than about a broader reckoning — the