--- title: Blogs on Document Processing & Data Strategy | Chris Dearner description: Chris Dearner is currently the Grooper product manager for BIS, an Oklahoma software company specializing in data extraction and integration. Chris is concurrently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine, writing a dissertation on affordances and embodied action in Renaissance drama. 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