# Best tools for extracting data from multiple file formats

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I’m comparing tools for <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/data-extraction-tools"><strong>extracting data from different file formats</strong></a> and trying to figure out which ones are actually good once you go beyond just PDFs and need support for spreadsheets, scans, emails, forms, and other mixed document types.</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 options 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 like a strong choice for companies dealing with a wide range of document types and more complex extraction 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/azure-ai-document-intelligence/reviews"><strong>Azure AI Document Intelligence</strong></a><strong>: </strong>looks appealing if you want to pull structured data from PDFs, forms, scanned files, and other business documents at scale.</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> seems focused on document-heavy workflows and comes up a lot for automated extraction from invoices and similar file formats.</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>looks useful if the main goal is turning different business documents into structured, exportable data without too much manual work.</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>seems like a practical option for extracting data from emails, PDFs, attachments, and other common operational file types.</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 trying to understand which of these actually works best when the input formats are all over the place and you need something reliable without constant template fixing.</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 tools like these, which one handled multiple file formats the best?</p>

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The real test is how well it handles messy files, not just clean PDFs and spreadsheets in a demo.

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