Automate helps modern businesses access the data they need, no matter where it's located, if it's unstructured, or if it would take hours to manually pull.
Especially important for today’s enterprises is gleaning data from the web, a desktop application, or other sources. Using traditional methods, data extraction can involve creating custom processing and filtering algorithms. Then you might need additional scripts or a separate tool to integrate the scraped data with the rest of your IT infrastructure.
Your busy employees don’t have time for that. Any company that handles a high volume of data needs a comprehensive automation tool to bridge the gap between unstructured data and business applications.
What Type of Data Can You Extract with Automation?
Data from practically any source can be extracted—like emails, PDFs, Microsoft Excel, CSV, databases, and more!
After Automate extracts data, you can further automate your business processes by sending the data directly into documents, reports, or other business applications without any additional manual tasks or code writing. For example, Automate can:
Extract data from PDF orders to enter into ERP systems
Screen scrape data from AS/400 to populate to Excel reports
Collect data from multiple websites to get pricing information
Read emails for specific content to automate a reply
How Data Extraction Works with Automate
In this example data scraping and extraction task, Automate will extract information from a W2 and send it to an Excel spreadsheet.
In this video, you'll see how to use:
- OCR (optical character recognition) functionality
- Variables
- One way to use the Excel action to write data to a spreadsheet
Benefits of Automated Data Extraction with Automate
Automate provides sophisticated data extraction, transformation, and transport tools that keep your critical data moving without the need for tedious manual tasks or custom script writing.
ODBC/OLE Database Queries and Transactions
Before you can automate systems, networks, and applications, you need access to databases. Automate provides the tools for database access, queries, and transactions with all ODBC/OLE databases. With data access, you can leverage the power of Automate's other automation tools to streamline IT and business processes.
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