Data Extraction Tools

Data extraction software enables companies to extract data out of online and offline sources.

Most online and offline data sources (e.g. documents, web pages) are not immediately processable by machines. Data extraction software enables companies to extract data out of these sources.

To be categorized as a data extraction software, a product must be able to automatically extract data from various types of unstructured and semi structured data sources.

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Data Extraction Tool Leaders

According to the weighted combination of 7 data sources

ABBYY Recognition Server

Docparser

Altair Monarch

Datamatics TruCap+

IBM Datacap

What are Data Extraction Tool market leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current data extraction tool market leaders. Market leaders are not the overall leaders since market leadership doesn’t take into account growth rate.

ABBYY Recognition Server

Docparser

Altair Monarch

Rossum

Datamatics TruCap+

What are the most mature Data Extraction Tools?

Which data extraction tool companies have the most employees?

9 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 12 less than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.

In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 44 companies with >10 employees are offering data extraction tool. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 400k employees. The largest company building data extraction tool is IBM with more than 300,000 employees.

IBM
AWS
OpenText
Datamatics
Kofax

What are the Data Extraction Tools growing their number of reviews fastest?


We have analyzed reviews published in the last months. These were published in 4 review platforms as well as vendor websites where the vendor had provided a testimonial from a client whom we could connect to a real person.

These solutions have the best combination of high ratings from reviews and number of reviews when we take into account all their recent reviews.

What is the average customer size?

According to customer reviews, most common company size for data extraction tool customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 40% of data extraction tool customers. For an average Automation solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 21% of total customers.

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Customer Evaluation

These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all Data Extraction Tools. Data Extraction Tools is most positively evaluated in terms of "Overall" but falls behind in "Ease of Use".

While Optical Character recognition (OCR) technology captures all text in images and files, document capture goes one step further and converts text into structured data. Examples of structured data in images and documents include key value pairs (e.g. bank account numbers, customer names in invoices) and tables

Document capture software specialize in extracting data out of unstructured data.

There are 3 types of data: Structured, semi-structured and unstructured:

  • Structured data forms 5-10% of all data. It is in tabular form and is processable without errors by machines. Structured data include most excel tables, data in SQL databases, XML or JSON files that follow strict structure requirements
  • Semi-structured data forms 5-10% of all data. It is not in tabular form but still has a structure though this structure is not explicitly declared and not followed 100% of the time. Semi-structured data can be processed with low error rates but achieving zero errors is challenging. Semi-structured data include invoice slips, most PDF forms, XML or JSON files which do not follow strict structure requirements
  • Unstructured data forms ~80% of all data. It includes free text and images that do not follow any explicit structure. It is challenging to extract structured data out of these documents with low error rates. If unstructured data is actually found to follow a structure and that structure is identified, it can be correctly categorized as semi/structured data based on the strictness by which the identified structure is followed throughout the document.

Error rate in data extraction can be measured in a few ways but not every error has the same cost. Imagine making an incorrect payment because your data extractor made an incorrect character reading with high confidence. This is a costly error. However, failing to read a character and flagging it as unreadable is a less costly issue. Therefore it is important to focus on cases where data extraction tools make extraction errors while claiming a high level of confidence. These should be minimized.