Document Parser Template Editor Overview

In this part, we will take a look at the brief introduction of the Document Parser template editor tool. As the name implies it is a versatile template-based document parsing engine and data extraction tool. We will see what you can do with a PDF file using this tool and how it works to extract data through the use of rules or templates by defining the location of the text that should be extracted.

Getting Started with Document Parser

PDF documents such as invoices, bank statements, and many others are extremely common and critical in a diverse range of business workflows. Today for many businesses parsing and extracting data from this document is largely a manual effort that is ultimately prone to errors. Consider a document type like invoices, which can be laid out in thousands of different ways. Invoices from different companies or even different departments within the same company may have slightly different formatting.

However, there is a common understanding of the structured information that an invoice should contain, such as invoice number, date, or the amount due and the list of items for which the invoice was sent. Is there any way using which we can automatically extract all this data by avoiding manual work?

Document Parser Editor Features

ByteScout Document Parser template editor tool as per its name is a template-based document parsing engine that can parse and extract important data from documents such as invoices, insurance quotations, and many others using premade templates. There is no programming knowledge required to create and maintain data extraction templates. This tool does not only extract data from normal fields like company name or contact person or phone number etc from PDF. If your PDF contains structure tables or scanned images, then it can also extract data from it very easily.

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How does it work? As a sample document, let's consider this sample insurance document following a fixed format. Now the next step is to define a set of parsing rules or a template by selecting the area from which you want to extract your required data using the No code User-Friendly parsing tool. Once you are ready or confirm with the extraction region, then just click on the Run template and that's it. Your PDF will now automatically be processed by the Document Parser tool. You will get data in a matter of seconds in different formats like JSON, CSV, YAML, or custom format.

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Document Parser template editor tool offers a simple and intuitive parsing interface that allows you to build a template to extract only the data that you need. Now, let's go through some of the important features of this tool. So using a Document Parser tool, one can easily generate a custom identification template. Using a built-in template editor for faster and accurate document processing.

Document Parser Details

This tool has many preset templates to save time and extract data from the given PDF. These templates are geared for PDF with text. If your PDF document contains multiple tables, then this tool supports the usage of multiple tables. You can easily extract important data from them. With this tool, you can work offline without an Internet connection. Using an on-premise Document Parser SDK and using this tool, one can easily extract text from scanned documents resided within the PDF. For that thanks to the built-in, AI-powered OCR engine which extracts data from the scanned documents with multi-language support.

Online Document Parser

You can use PDF.co web API to connect Document Parsers with others or your own application and dramatically increase your efficiency and workflow. Currently, these tools support the output of your PDF data in CSV, XML, PDF to JSON, and in plain text. Finally, you will find a bunch of source code and documentation that makes it easy to use these tools in your application. There are many more features you can explore. Once you will start to use it, you can explore this tool from the given URL. Let's jump into the next session and see how to use this tool.

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