# Best platforms for automated PDF and document data extraction

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I’m trying to find a good platform for <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/data-extraction-tools"><strong>automated PDF and document data extraction</strong></a>, especially for cases where there are a lot of files and the data needs to come out in a usable format without tons of manual cleanup.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">A few tools I’ve been looking at:</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/abbyy-intelligent-document-processing/reviews"><strong>ABBYY Vantage</strong></a><strong>: </strong>seems strong for document-heavy enterprise workflows</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/rossum/reviews"><strong>Rossum</strong></a><strong>: </strong>looks focused on automated document processing</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/docparser/reviews"><strong>Docparser</strong></a><strong>: </strong>seems useful for pulling structured data from PDFs</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/parseur-saas/reviews"><strong>Parseur</strong></a><strong>: </strong>appears straightforward for invoices, emails, and forms</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"><strong>Azure AI Document Intelligence: </strong>interesting if you want extraction tied into a larger cloud stack</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I’m mainly curious which of these actually works well once you’re dealing with real volume and messy document formats.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For anyone who’s used them, what platform has been the most reliable for PDF and document data extraction?</p>

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In my experience, the real test is unstructured docs. Plenty of platforms work on clean PDFs, but fewer stay accurate when formats start changing file to file.

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