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Ephesoft Transact vs IQ Bot comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Ephesoft Transact
Ranking in Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
19th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IQ Bot
Ranking in Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
4th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) category, the mindshare of Ephesoft Transact is 1.9%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IQ Bot is 2.5%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
 

Featured Reviews

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A stable and scalable smart content acquisition and data classification solution with a useful inject feature
I would advise potential users that Ephesoft Transact is an easy tool to handle. The UI isn't complex, and even if everything isn't handled at the UI level, they can work with the script. You can also handle issues with scripts. I believe Ephesoft Transact is one of the best tools because the UI is an easy one. The UI-level design makes it easy to handle the development and the superior Ephesoft support system. They will give you quick support to resolve issues and provide training materials. They will train the developer, and after training the developers, they will also support them. That's a good good thing that I saw. Initially, when I joined this project, I also had less knowledge. But with the help of this support system and the training material, I now have superior knowledge. On a scale from one to ten, I would give Ephesoft Transact a nine.
Hilal Paray. - PeerSpot reviewer
Has valuable OCR capabilities and a straightforward setup process
The initial setup is straightforward. Automation Anywhere's cloud-based tools make the deployment process relatively easy compared to other solutions. The on-premises version can be deployed in about a week, as testing is involved. However, deploying the cloud version takes approximately 30 minutes since everything is pre-configured and ready to deploy.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I have found the keyword extraction to be helpful."
"I like the inject feature. With desktop injects, we're doing all these things and extracting these things. Its stable, scalable, and technical support is good."
"Transact's best feature is its ease of customization."
"The most valuable feature is the cognitive, self-learning component that understands the undefined templates."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the new feature that makes it possible to integrate the platform with Google."
"Our mainframe-based and web-based projects are working well, with no issues."
"It's quite easy to use, you just have to map the filter to keep it going."
"The efficiency with which it was able to categorize the different data types and the format."
"The most valuable features are rapid development, stability, and ease of use."
"The extraction feature is the most valuable one of IQ Bot."
"The best feature is that we can extract data from an image. That's why Automation Anywhere implemented IQ Bot. Otherwise, you cannot extract data from an image. Nowadays, every industry is scanning invoices and uploading them to some website or storing them on some shared drive. IQ Bot can do data extraction from the PDF format and the JPG format."
 

Cons

"Transact could be improved by removing Java and making its pricing more accessible for smaller customers."
"It's not easy to train."
"Their email service and extraction could be better. We get the input via email, and these emails contain different types of documents like Excel, PDF, or they may contain different content in the email body. Due to this variation, sometimes the email service crashes, and emails aren't redirected to Ephesoft Transact. Ephesoft has provided us with new hotfixes. Whatever flaws we found in the 2019.2 version, they have already updated it in the new version, 20.1.05, and it's already released. Drawbacks like not capturing the handwritten fields are now sorted."
"Pricing is a significant concern as IQ Bot is costly. The competition, particularly with hyperscalers like Azure and AWS, offers alternatives at one-tenth of the cost."
"Product algorithms could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having more domain-specific templates, such as for documents other than invoices or contracts. For example, having templates for IDs or Passports."
"It would be good if the solution could extract or capture details from unstructured data."
"It would be helpful if the IQ Bot OCR could be integrated with third-party solutions like FlexiCapture."
"Could improve with regard to hand-written documents."
"We face a few data extraction challenges when we use a huge data set with different formats."
"Lacks sufficient flexibility in identifying a wider variety of documents."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Initially, when I got a licensed copy of Ephesoft Transact, it was for one year. After one year, we had to send an email to the Ephesoft team informing them that our license was going to expire. They updated it and provided one license in our file, and we had to update and install the folder. They have versions for one year and lifelong as well."
"Transact's pricing could be better for smaller customers."
"I feel that the price of IQ Bot could be lower."
"The price could be lower."
"There are more affordable solutions than this."
"Pricing is highly confidential because it is something that can be negotiated."
"If you make use of only a few bots, this solution is very cheap."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"The package that includes Automation Anywhere and IQ Bot starts at $10,000 USD."
"IQ Bot is expensive compared to other solutions."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Retailer
9%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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