PDF Scraper Software For Data Providers & Agencies

Scrape data from PDF documents on scale. Docparser offers a powerful set of tools to convert semi-structured PDF documents into easy-to-handle structured data.

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PDF Documents Hold Massive Amounts Of Data

In today’s work environment, PDF documents are the go-to solution for exchanging business data. A pixel perfect representation on all devices makes PDF a great replacement for “paper” and it is widely used to exchange business documents, such as Invoices, Purchase Orders, Reports, Work Orders, Price Lists & Product Catalogs, etc. – internally as well as between trading partners.

While PDF documents are easily readable by humans, only a small percentage of them come with machine readable meta data. Accessing the massive amounts of text data stored in PDF documents and converting it to easy-to-handle structured data is a non-trivial task. Unlike other document formats (e.g. XML, HTML), the PDF standard does not provide any hiercharchical tags, which would ease extracting, structuring and understanding the data programatically.

Scrape PDF Documents Like You Would Scrape The Web

When it comes to extracting data from PDF documents, manually re-keying is often the default solution. Manual data entry is however tedious, error-prone and costly. Luckily, there are better ways of extracting data from PDF documents.

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Docparser is a PDF scraper software that allows you to automatically pull data from recurring PDF documents on scale. Like web-scraping (collecting data by crawling the internet), scraping PDF documents is a powerful method to automatically convert semi-structured text documents into structured data.

 
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Based on 106 reviews
Meagan B.
Meagan B.
2021-10-25
Great solution for copy and past PDF ☺It works super easy en friendly. A really good solution to copy files from a PDF to an Excel file. ☹You cannot upload more than 30 pages. So you need to cut your pdf in pieces and then upload the cutted pdf separately.
Mikayla C.
Mikayla C.
2021-07-14
Great and Time Saving We have reduced our time entering information by half by having only the relevant information extracted so we don't have to open and read the PDF. ☺Being able to search for a marker to extract the data after it ☹The refine search function was a little confusing at first but with some time playing around with it I got the hang of it.
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Verified Reviewer
2021-06-24
It works only in specific cases It's a bit tricky sometimes to use it but it saves some time when it comes to entering big documents. Also you need to consider if its worth it to enter some information with the software because uploading can take more time than entering manually sometimes ☺It really helps when it comes to entering big amounts of information for a document. ☹In some documents, it does not work really well, and sometimes create a new template is a bit annoying. but once you have its really helpful
Casper M.
Casper M.
2021-03-18
It do what I need ☺ The product works and is stable. Once you get started using it, it's easy to set up new documents. We scan a number of documents, and with the program we have the opportunity to scale processes that are otherwise manual. ☹Nothing.
Matt B.
Matt B.
2020-12-30
The best tool to structure your data from incoming documents ☺Really easy to setup and use. Super accurate to find the data in different document formats, even if it's not always in the same location every time. Best thing is being able to get the information in an easy to use format to then process however you like ☹It would be great to see the OCR be able to handle written responses and some more integrations with Office products
Nate P.
Nate P.
2020-12-09
This product eliminates menial tasks I like it because it does things that Mailparser can't do. ☺Automation because it saves us a ton of time. ☹Sometimes the webhooks don't always seem to work with my target program.
Matthew L.
Matthew L.
2020-11-16
Docparser review ☺Easy to use and integrate with existing software ☹Slightly expensive but worth the money if you use it to save time
Matt H.
Matt H.
2020-10-07
Docparser saves my team hundreds of hours and helps identify new business opportunities Every month my team would get a 700+ page PDF report with project status updates. Each page was a different project. Some of these were old projects and not of interest. Some were projects we were already working on and needed to keep tracking. Some were new projects that we needed to engage with. Searching and splitting up this document manually was inefficient and we were missing out on important projects. I started searching for solutions, from Python scripts to PowerQuery to software packages/services. I looked at several companies, including Docparser. I attended webinars and had demos. By being able to try our Docparser's free tier with some sample documents, I was able to figure out that it could do exactly what I wanted. I got some help from the user support team and now I've got my parsing rules perfected. So every month when the 700+ page PDF comes out, I can pull out the information my team needs and export it all to Excel. We're savings hundreds of hours of frustration and not missing anything important. ☺Very easy to setup because of helpful guides. I was able to "test drive" the software using the free tier, to make sure it could produce EXACTLY what I wanted. This was a huge help to evaluate vs other products and help make our decision. Now that I have my parsing rules set up, it's extremely easy to run my big report once a month and distribute to my team. ☹Bit of a learning curve to get the parsing rules set up correctly. I needed to attend their help webinar to understand what I was doing wrong (but then got lots of help).
Kevin V.
Kevin V.
2020-09-16
Docparser helps Docparser has made it possible to automate a number of recurring human actions ☺Easy to use and to implement in your own software ☹User-friendliness and easy mode to scale up
John W.
John W.
2020-08-28
Great Platform ☺We no longer have to enter every single invoice into our Business System. With Webhook integration, we are fully integrated from a manufacturer's invoice PDF to our Accounts Payable interface. ☹Sometimes Docparser detects lines as a character, but that is mostly expected from an OCR platform.
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RefinePro helps organizations manage external data acquisition from sourcing and collecting third party data to loading them into their system. Our customers rely on RefinePro’s tool suite and processes to monitor prices from product catalogs or combine data released by governments or regulatory bodies. Unfortunately, those data are often locked in PDF files.

Our data ingestion workflow needs to be flexible to support the variety and the ever-changing format of data sources while lowering the effort to maintain our processes. Docparser is essential to balance both aspects. The Docparser API and webhooks allowed us to integrate the PDF extraction task directly in our workflow. When a file format changes, we use Docparser user interface to quickly and easily update a parser settings.

Martin – refinepro.com

The Docparser PDF Scraper Software

Docparser is a cloud PDF scraper software that provides flexible data extraction and conversion solutions for businesses worldwide. Whether you’re a corporation or a bootstrapped SaaS, Docparser comes with built-in OCR capabilities and offers ready-to-use templates for many use-cases. Setting up your first document parser takes usually less than 20 minutes and no programming is required.

Docparser allows you to extract data fields from fixed positions inside the document with a point and click interface. Extracting data from variable locations is possible thanks to smart filters and pattern matching algorithms. Table row parsing is a snap too, as you can define the column breaks and the overall area that the table resides.

How Do I Scrape Batch PDF Files?

Just sign up for a Docparser account, the first 100 scraped documents are free and the workflow is actually quite simple.

  • Add a few batch documents. These will act as training data
  • Train the system for each type of document you want to process by using our point and click system
  • Set up an automated process to fetch documents, process them, and dispatch the data
 

How Do I Scrape Batch PDF Files?

Docparser offers a wide range on integration options. Documents can be manually uploaded, sent as email attachments, imported through one of our integration partner or with our REST HTTP API. Once the data got parsed from documents, it can be made available in various file formats (ExcelJSONXML) or automatically sent to any private API or hundreds of software products in real time thanks to our Zapier and Workato integration.

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Over a year ago we were looking for an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) solution for our business. We collect and publish public information and at the time we were entering about 1.3 million documents per year. While some of the documents were available in an electronic format that we could easily import into our system, the majority were paper based. We felt strongly that with the right solution we would be able to increase the accuracy and speed of the data entered into our system. Our hope was to find a system that would let us scale our business using existing resources.

We reviewed several OCR solutions. One in particular looked good and we had even moved to a design and implementation stage. The solution was expensive and the technology was so complicated that much of the cost would be tied up in the development of the OCR templates. This created a huge issue for us because of the variety of documents we collect. We have thousands and almost all are different. This was going to require a lot of custom development, which meant money, lot’s of money.

Then someone pointed me to Docparser. That changed everything. I was introduced to a system that was amazingly simple at a fraction of the price of every other system we had reviewed. Docparser was the perfect solution for us. It took less than an hour to evaluate and test the initial functionality and know that we had stumbled upon a powerful OCR system that would solve the pains we were having in our business. Moritz and his team have been great to work with even though their software is so powerful we seldom need to speak to them. But when we do they are quick to respond. We have been able to create hundreds of ‘parsers’ that take our document images and convert them to data that we map over to our database for automatic entry. The API provided by docparser has allowed us to create a seamless integration to our system that has helped increase our data entry efficency by over 35%. Their interface is simple enough that my own staff creates the powerful parsers that extract the data from the images we collect.

David Mineer – Construction Monitor

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