Well written piece, kudos to the author.<p>If we are uploading cheques and licenses, why not just have a form with the respective upload sections for each document. Sure, people might get the two backward by accident, but is that error rate really any worse than the false positive rate of the proposed solution.<p>If you are going to go the machine learning route, then it really only makes sense if you go all the way and do some OCR on the documents to pick out the meaningful information to prepopulate some input screen that would likely appear after submitting those documents.
I find Computer vision so interesting. Does anyone know if there are many consulting opportunities dealing with it?<p>Or is it a really crowded fields because it's so interesting to so many people. (I never see people looking for computer vision researchers in the who's hiring threads)