Content Understanding release notes

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated July 28, 2026
  • 1 minute to read
  • The ServiceNow® Content Understanding application replaces Now Assist in Document Intelligence. It brings multimodal generative AI to document and image processing, extracting key data, answering natural-language questions, and generating summaries from unstructured text, tables, and images.

    Content Understanding highlights for the Australia 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.

    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.