Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Consultant
Jul 7, 2021
Make sure you understand OCR and how it's not perfect. It's as much of an art as a science. Just running it through Grooper without putting the right rules and the validation rules unless you do that, you'll be able to use the full capabilities. If you go in just thinking you should do the extraction and go out the door without putting any kind of adjustments or rules or modifying the data with business rules, it's not going to do that well for you. That's with any kind of product with an OCR solution. Dealing with a beta product, know that there are still going to be issues and issues that no one knows about until they run a lot through or different scenarios through. I would rate it a seven and a half out of ten.
President and COO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Reseller
Apr 12, 2021
We've written code for Grooper, although it has been utilized primarily for validations, rather than for the actual extraction. The extraction is something that we've pretty much handled all through the user interface. However, once we pull pieces of information and we want to validate that to a third-party system or an external database, for example, we have written our own scripts to take the extracted data. The operations will be things like a database lookup, performing validations, pulling back some more information, and then updating additional fields. But for the extraction itself, we really have not had to write code. The fact that extracting data didn't require scripting was not a deciding factor for us. However, it is an important factor because most people want to have a business analyst support the process, rather than having to hire a developer. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
I'm not sure the UI could be improved, as any changes might make it harder to use or more overwhelming. Usually, the easier you make common tasks, the harder you make it to perform more advanced functions. Overall, this solution is great!
Grooper was built from the ground up by BIS, a company with 35 years of continuous experience developing and delivering new technology. Grooper is an intelligent document processing and digital data integration solution that empowers organizations to extract meaningful information from paper/electronic documents and other forms of unstructured data.
The platform combines patented and sophisticated image processing, capture technology, machine learning, natural language processing, and...
Make sure you understand OCR and how it's not perfect. It's as much of an art as a science. Just running it through Grooper without putting the right rules and the validation rules unless you do that, you'll be able to use the full capabilities. If you go in just thinking you should do the extraction and go out the door without putting any kind of adjustments or rules or modifying the data with business rules, it's not going to do that well for you. That's with any kind of product with an OCR solution. Dealing with a beta product, know that there are still going to be issues and issues that no one knows about until they run a lot through or different scenarios through. I would rate it a seven and a half out of ten.
We've written code for Grooper, although it has been utilized primarily for validations, rather than for the actual extraction. The extraction is something that we've pretty much handled all through the user interface. However, once we pull pieces of information and we want to validate that to a third-party system or an external database, for example, we have written our own scripts to take the extracted data. The operations will be things like a database lookup, performing validations, pulling back some more information, and then updating additional fields. But for the extraction itself, we really have not had to write code. The fact that extracting data didn't require scripting was not a deciding factor for us. However, it is an important factor because most people want to have a business analyst support the process, rather than having to hire a developer. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
I'm not sure the UI could be improved, as any changes might make it harder to use or more overwhelming. Usually, the easier you make common tasks, the harder you make it to perform more advanced functions. Overall, this solution is great!