ABBYY Vantage and UiPath are not direct alternatives but complementary solutions that work together. UiPath is praised for its positive ROI and strong automation capabilities, while ABBYY Vantage excels in OCR accuracy, automation workflows, and data extraction. UiPath users appreciate the comprehensive automation features, but desire improvements in UI and performance. ABBYY Vantage users value its efficient customer support, but note areas for enhancement in integration, and OCR accuracy.
The summary above is based on 1023 interviews we conducted recently with UiPath and ABBYY Vantage users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"I like the flexibility of the layout. For example, for the documents that we're using, this is the main feature that is very useful and makes it flexible for extraction."
"The solution's technical support is very supportive."
"ABBYY Vantage has reduced our data because it can classify and extract information from documents."
"The most valuable features have been the rate of recognition and the structured documents."
"The OTR (Optical Text Recognition) is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of ABBYY FlexiCapture is the accuracy of the general extractions."
"Allows us to run through documents and extract information."
"It's a very useful and user-friendly product."
"Their core platform of Studio is valuable. The ease of use and the ability to build these automations quickly is definitely a highlight for us. Our average process from start to finish takes three to four weeks. We can knock out automations as quickly as we can identify them. That is probably the best feature I see."
"The solution has helped our organization save costs. It’s likely saved us about $10 million."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to utilize UiPath beyond our scheduled work hours, making it available 24 hours a day."
"It has a simple user interface."
"UiPath is well-suited for automating tasks within Oracle applications and can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud."
"The most valuable features of Studio are all of the activities that UiPath and their partners have developed."
"The UiPath Academy is fantastic and amazing. I'm a big promoter of it in my discussions with customers."
"Unattended robots are my favorite because it allows us to completely remove a process from a person's day."
"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."
"ABBYY FlexiCapture could improve the performance. We are looking for better performance because it can be a lengthy capture process and the accuracy needs to be enhanced when it comes to Arabic."
"The system does not always train itself to recognize data properly."
"It would be good if the product provided an AI-based prebuilt model that predicts and gives output."
"Not a ten because sometimes some documents have handwritten data. If this improved, I would rate it a ten out of ten."
"Quite complex, particularly for those who are not tech savvy."
"The recognition intelligence could improve by having more details in the documents. There are limitations with the forms, templates, and manuscripts."
"Customization in the solution needs to be modified. In the future, I would like to see the product have better customization functionality."
"An area for improvement I saw in UiPath is API integration, particularly with Microsoft. If you compare my experience with Power Automate in terms of integration, it is seamless. Integration via Power Automate is easy, more of dragging and dropping and then starting, which is still not the case with UiPath."
"Handling unstructured data is challenging because UiPath works best with structured data. It could also be better at handling complex tasks. UiPath doesn't work as expected when automating tasks that require a high degree of decision-making."
"It interacts with so many products that the robot itself becomes unstable."
"The cognitive area is one where there is room for improvement. Automation Anywhere has grown in that area, whereas UiPath still is more dependent on third-party integration. That is something which they should be focusing on more. They should acquire a product and get it integrated."
"UiPath is relatively expensive."
"Definitely, the machine learning engine should be improved so that we can process more invoices and purchase orders in PDF format with ease."
"One feature I think it needs - from a documentation perspective - is the ability to easily extract variable details and data... Sometimes it's difficult to extract those, and if you're not tracking them while you build, you can quickly get into 200 to 300 variables in use, especially using the RE Framework where you're passing workflow arguments in and out. I would like to see something like that."
"We sometimes struggle trying to figure out what kind of a bot we need to use for what kind of work, and it would be nice to have more clarity on this."
ABBYY Vantage is ranked 7th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 46 reviews while UiPath is ranked 1st in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 760 reviews. ABBYY Vantage is rated 8.0, while UiPath is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of ABBYY Vantage writes "Genius-level AI with very easy setup and implementation processes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of UiPath writes "Facilitates end-to-end automation, has good AI and document understanding capabilities, and saves us costs previously spent on manual tasks". ABBYY Vantage is most compared with UiPath Document Understanding, Microsoft Power Automate, HyperScience, OpenText Intelligent Capture and Tungsten TotalAgility, whereas UiPath is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, Automation Anywhere (AA), Blue Prism, Robocorp and Syntel SyntBots. See our ABBYY Vantage vs. UiPath report.
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Hello dear Nesrin Benhayoun, hope you are doing fine. There are some big differences between them. I will name 2 of them which for me are the most important:
1- FlexiCapture is an independent Platform. This means that you will be able to automate any department demand for documents context (now so called content), no matter this department "is, or is not" provided with UiPath bot (or any other RPA Vendor). You have to think about FlexiCapture spread all over the organization, helping with any document demand.
2- FlexiCapture has has more than 30 years experience, and developed extremely powerful intelligence layers, which since the beginning have been guided by AI and ML, and this will bring the organizations all over the world the ability to contextualize all the read fields, paragraphs, tables, images (personal pictures for instance) inside a document or inside a set of documents.
Uipath is at the beginniing of its journey and also has ABBYY FlexiCapture as one of their strategy for IDP offers.
If you want a real independent and faster IDP solution (no matter the RPA vendor) go for FlexiCapture and let the bots join when they arrive. You don't need for the bots, to start working with this powerful tool that will really scale your automation...anywhere.
I think Omar Madaeen has given the response very crisp and clear! When you use it with a a product along with its built in RPA and AI capabilities like UiPath it will become easy to move the process and address the complete value chain of process.
Dear Nesrin,
UIPath is using ABBYY FlexiCapture in their projects as an integration to the OCR capabilities, and UIPath AI is something different UiPath artificial intelligence (AI) allows you to scientifically discover automation opportunities and enhance your robots with AI Skills. Simply drag and drop these AI Skills into your workflows—and start automating more it has nothing to deal with OCR.
Abbyy Flexi Capture is an OCR solution. UiPath is an RPA platform solution.
Abbyy Flexicapture mainly excels where Optical Character Recognition input is required (eg. Reading a physical bill and digitizing/extracting information from it) and it cannot interact with other computer applications.
UiPath on the other hand can automate the overall processes themselves using excel, word or any other application that runs on a computer just like how a human does but faster and better.