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PDF Parsing Use Cases

PDF parsers or PDF scrapers are widely preferred in use cases that deal with intelligent document processing or business process automation.  This essentially covers any organizational workflow that needs to automatically extract data from PDF documents:

Companies spanning the Finance, Construction, Healthcare, Insurance, Banking, Hospitality, & Automobile industries use PDF parsers like Nanonets to parse or scrape PDFs for valuable data.

Benefits of Parsing PDF documents

Parsing PDF documents used in your organization’s workflows can greatly optimize your business processes. Automated PDF parsers, such as Nanonets, can further streamline business processes by leveraging automation, AI & ML capabilities to drastically reduce inefficiencies. Here are some of the benefits of PDF parsing:

• Save time & money that can be spent more fruitfully
• Reduce dependence on manual processes & data entry
• Eliminate errors, duplication and rework
• Improve accuracy while increasing scale
• Reduce document processing durations
• Optimize workflows & internal data exchange
• Eliminate the use & storage of physical documents
• Turn unstructured data into structured formats

How to Parse PDF Files with Nanonets

Nanonets PDF parser has pre-trained models for specific document types such as invoices, receipts, passports, driver’s license, resumes and more. Just login & select the appropriate pre-trained model for your use case, add the PDF files, test & verify, and finally export the extracted data in a convenient structure format. Follow these instructions to extract text or tables from PDF documents with Nanonets pre-trained PDF parser models.

If the pre-trained models do not meet the specific requirements of your use case, build a custom PDF parser model with Nanonets. Just upload some training PDF files, annotate the PDFs to highlight the text/data of interest, train the model, and finally test & verify the model on a bunch of sample PDF documents pertinent to your use case. Follow these instructions to extract data from PDFs with a custom PDF parser model.

Nanonets online OCR & OCR API have many interesting use cases that could optimize your business performance, save costs and boost growth. Find out how Nanonets’ use cases can apply to your product.