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ABBYY Vantage vs akaBot comparison

 

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ABBYY Vantage
Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (1st)
akaBot
Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
62nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Lucas Ivantes - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 26, 2024
Easy to use, flexible to deploy, and trains different documents easily
We resell the product. We are partners. We do not have internal uses of the product. I do not contact support. I contact a representative usually. He escalates our calls to support. I am part of the initial deployment team. The accuracy of the results produced by the solution's AI document processing is okay. It's good that it supports multi-page documents and tables. It's good that the product also has machine learning. We can enable it, and it will improve over time. Machine learning is one of the main things we use. We can train a small batch of documents from Brazil, and it can improve over time without needing to train a lot of documents. Our customers are spread out. We have tried Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese, French, and Italian documents. We had a good experience with the languages we tried. We have used the AI extraction models mostly for invoices. The main thing is to get the process up and running quickly. On the commercial front, there are many tables. We can quickly add a document in development and build a scenario for a demo. The implementation is very quick. We have five different customers in a matter of months. Using ABBYY has helped us reduce manual data entry and free up staff for other tasks. Sometimes, the customer already has an ERP that does the extraction. We are just doing it upfront. The percentage of documents that go straight through processing has improved over time as the models get more advanced. It is the main metric we look at. ABBYY provides "straight-through" processing, in which content is automatically extracted and delivered without manual processing. The quality is good. We set the rules. If it goes through, it means that none of the rules were broken. The main problem is to get the percentage high. We apply manual reviews, too. A percentage of the requests with an error in some rules go through a manual review. We haven't had any solutions in production before. We have had backend solutions, but they were not IDP and were not comparable with ABBYY Vantage. Customers see an advantage in them. It is an extra cost. The price is justified by the ease of implementation of training different documents. If we just need one document or invoice, other products may be more cost-effective. The main thing for me is to enable the users to do the manual reviews and improve the results themselves without needing to train or do a big batch of training with the team. The sooner we can get people trained in the process, the faster we will get the results. The newer tools coming up have more natural language, AI, and large language models. ABBYY is one of the best tools I used. Overall, I rate the solution an 8 out of 10.
Huong Hoang - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 7, 2024
Streamlined accounting processes. cost-effective, and saves time
We use akaBot in our finance and accounting process. This is the main use case for akaBot akaBot has saved us about 80% of our operation time for the accounting process. The cost is affordable, and it fits our requirements. We do not need advanced automation. If they can provide more…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution's AI technology is genius."
"Verification Station is valuable."
"We are able to extract details from a PDF and put them into a CSV. It is able to extract the details that we are looking for. We have the Machine Learning feature to extract the data with respect to the position of the field."
"We can quickly integrate the catalogs with proper documentation."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is easy to use and configure."
"While using ABBYY FlexiCapture we did not use the generic models that they do have for invoice and purchase orders. For one of the use-cases, the document was exactly the purchase order, but we are not using that generic model. We are creating the model from Scratch. However, if I was to compare ABBYY FlexiCapture with other IA tools, the machine learning and how the extraction is done is far better than competitors. This allows a lot less effort for the development."
"The OTR (Optical Text Recognition) is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"There are a lot of options in ABBYY FlexiCapture, and it is very vast. I have worked with multiple OCR tools, and I found ABBYY FlexiCapture to be the most accurate tool."
"The cost is affordable, and it fits our requirements."
 

Cons

"They say that they have invoice training or document training where if you put in a certain number of documents of the same type and you fix it once, twice, or a few times, it'll automatically be able to read the same document perfectly without you having to create a layout for it to follow. That has never worked properly for any project, so I just stopped recommending it completely. We spent time trying to test and getting a bunch of invoices to test it with, and in the end, it just didn't do what it needed to. If they fix that or if they can improve on that, that would be great. It will save a lot of time for a lot of people, and it will allow people with less experience with ABBYY to be able to use it."
"Their tutorials are not enough. They can improve the tutorials and maybe add more examples in their tutorials. Currently, if you want to learn ABBYY technology, it is very difficult. There are just a few resources, such as YouTube channels and blogs. There are not many resources for learning ABBYY."
"In IRISXtract, we can have master data, and we can set the master data. There are more options for taking any data and comparing it with master data. For a project, they have a dump from SAP for validation. This feature is there in ABBYY, but it is not extensive like IRISXtract. ABBYY is capturing the data, but there are not a lot of options to validate the captured data. It would be helpful if there are more options for validating the captured data in ABBYY FlexiCapture."
"Even though the training works, it's not as good as it is made out to be."
"The initial setup was relatively complex. The people who install it must be knowledgeable about what they are doing."
"The lack of patch update notifications creates a blind spot."
"The modelling, classification and handwritten information are not great."
"The price for trainings or certifications are on the very, very high side."
"If they can provide more intelligent automation, it would be beneficial."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of this ABBYY FlexiCapture is a bit expensive and the price is based on how many documents have been captured. For example, one or two million captures."
"We were able to qualify for a reasonable price. The price is in the low to medium range compared to other solutions."
"It is expensive as compared to UiPath. We pay for the licensing and the page count."
"I give the price a six out of ten."
"The cost is per page we use. So, the number of pages we use will be its cost."
"I'd give ABBYY Vantage's pricing a rating of seven out of ten."
"For us, the price is reasonable."
"The price of ABBYY FlexiCapture is better than some competitors, such as OpenText."
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Computer Software Company
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Financial Services Firm
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Manufacturing Company
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Comms Service Provider
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ABBYY Vantage?
Vantage is flexible and customizable. It's a low-code/no-code tool, so you don't need to get into detailed coding. You can also use AI to accomplish medium-complex tasks.
What needs improvement with ABBYY Vantage?
I would like better language support for Hebrew and Arabic. They're still working on that, and we might get an update by the end of this year. There is currently no support for those two languages ...
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