Many moons ago when I worked in the finance sector, I noticed that a huge amount of work in the industry appear to comprise many groups of humans writing a elab

Many moons ago when I worked in the finance sector, I noticed that a huge amount of work in the industry appear to comprise many groups of humans writing a elaborate stories around a few tables of numbers, while a bunch of other groups were trying to extract the numbers from the text again into some more usable tabular form again. Always seemed like a huge waste of human time and energy to me, best if it can be efficiently automated.