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Astera ReportMiner Reviews & Product Details

Astera ReportMiner, an unstructured data management tool, provides a complete solution for end-to-end data ingestion and integration for unstructured data sources. ReportMiner enables you to liberate business data trapped in documents such as PDFs, PDF forms, PRN, TXT, RTF, DOC,DOCX, XLS, and XLSX. Astera’s solution is a combination of AI and template-based data extraction purpose-built for efficiency. Users can auto-generate templates with the click of a button, fine-tune them using comprehensive customization options, and use them for subsequent extraction jobs involving files with similar layouts, saving time and effort. With features for data cleansing/scrubbing, business rules-based data quality verification, data transformation (merging, splitting, normalizing, denormalizing, and more), and loading into high-end database platforms, the perfect integration flow can be designed to extract, transform, and load data into the final destination for operations and business intelligence applications. ReportMiner Enterprise Edition also provides a built-in scheduler with real-time scheduling features, so not only is the extract/transform/load process automated, but also job scheduling and maintenance. ReportMiner Enterprise Edition ensures you get the best out of the automation process.

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English

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Astera ReportMiner Demo - AI-powered Data extraction in Astera Report Miner

The AI-recommended template is a design-time feature that automatically generates a structured template on the unstructured report. It operates with a single trigger, eliminating 99% of the manual effort in the post-processing stage. The resultant template can be placed in an automation engine to...

Astera ReportMiner Demo - Report Model Options in Astera

Depending on the documents, users can choose purchase orders or invoices from the drop-down menu. Users can provide the layout of the data that they want to extract from these source files either via importing a layout defined object from a dataflow or importing a layout from a JSON.

Astera ReportMiner Demo - Automated Report Mining in Astera Report Miner

The automated report mining generates report models for each file in the folder and successfully generated files to the AI Generated Report Models folder.

Astera ReportMiner Demo - Standalone Report Model Creation

Users can also create standalone report models automatically using the Auto create layout model in the tool.

Astera ReportMiner Demo - OCR feature in Astera Report Miner

Astera ReportMiner provides an option to extract data from PDF files that have images or scanned documents that are saved as PDFs with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature. Users can also select the suitable resolution to apply OCR.

Astera ReportMiner Reviews (17)

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Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/5/2023

"Powerful tool with excellent support staff"

5/5

What do you like best about Astera ReportMiner?

It's a powerful tool that supports Regex and automation with a very responsive and helpful support staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astera ReportMiner?

I would have liked to see native OCR support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matthew B.

Only Murders In The Building

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/9/2021

"Report Miner works as promised. Excellent support staff."

5/5

What do you like best about Astera ReportMiner?

It performs its function well, with flexibility and relative ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astera ReportMiner?

Unfortunately it is not available for Mac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hayder M.

Sr. Manager, Custom Applications

Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/2/2019

"PDF Digitization"

4/5

What do you like best about Astera ReportMiner?

Ability to easily convert PDF into text, especially in those situations where PDF documents have complicated format. So far, we have been able to address every scenario. We have tried other service such as PDF Focus and Azure Form Recognizer but only ReportMiner was able to handle all scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astera ReportMiner?

There is a learning curve to using the tool. Not sure if business users will be able to effectively use the tool without IT support. For image based PDF processing, we have to first run the OCR process. I would love to see ReportMiner add that capability in one package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Astera ReportMiner:

For more complex PDF and other file conversion to data, ReportMiner has proven to be a great tool for us. So far, we have only converted PDF but we intend to use for Excel as well. We tried many other solutions such as Azure Form Recognizer, PDF Focus, and we will use them also, but we use ReportMiner for more complex files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astera ReportMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Converting Customer Purchase Orders from PDF to Text so we can automatically load PO into our ERP system. Each customer PO comes with very different format as we are not able to dictate to customers to use one format. Report Miner has helped us do this transformation at a faster speed as we need to address hundreds of formats.

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Trey M. S.

Senior Financial Analyst -Risk Adjustment

Accounting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/27/2019

"Great Experience"

5/5

What do you like best about Astera ReportMiner?

It converts text files quickly and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astera ReportMiner?

Nothing really - I mean building the models/dataflows is a pain but you'd have that with any. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/27/2019

"Great tool for easy pdf automation "

5/5

What do you like best about Astera ReportMiner?

The efficiency I could set up templates for documents I intended to pull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astera ReportMiner?

The lack of automation on the less expensive versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sheida s.

Cargo Agent

Airlines/Aviation

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/25/2019

"Essential tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Astera ReportMiner?

Reportminer is super user friendly and easy and flexible to work with . It is like you buy this product and you are your own technical support which saved me alot of money plus I am assured that I can access my data’s wheneverI want!

Overall, I strongly recommend this product 👍🏻 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astera ReportMiner?

None

The product works for us pretty well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/8/2019

"Product Does exactly what we need"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Astera ReportMiner?

It is a very simple product to use. You do not need a degree in software development to become proficient in using Report Miner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astera ReportMiner?

I would like to see the scope of the product expanded without having to go to the full ETL solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/12/2018

"Difficult-After 2 weeks teaching myself-okay"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Astera ReportMiner?

Once self taught figured out the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astera ReportMiner?

Online Class SUCKED!

Tutorials SUCK!

had to self teach myself-took 2 weeks to self teach.

I am pretty decent with computers as well--any normal RN would not have been able to do this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Astera ReportMiner:

Have a decent class and not taught online in 4 hour time by someone that is an expert who does not know how to teach to novice reportminer customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astera ReportMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?

data mining-lab reports of VISTA system. 4 hour class I had, was horrible. Self taught myself in 2 weeks--too long! Tutorials were horrible!! But more beneficial than the class. Exporting to Excel is NOTHING like tutorial says it is. I figured out on my own, if I copy all the data preview and right click, I can then export to Excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from nabiha nadeem of Astera ReportMiner

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts in this review. We take these reviews very seriously and we're sorry that you are experiencing frustration with ReportMiner. Most of our customers are very happy with our software and we want you to be too. Our customer support promptly takes care of issues that customers have with the product and ensures that they are satisfied with the solution. Please get in touch directly so that we can work with you to resolve your issue.

Sergio C.

Software Developer

Hospitality

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/22/2016

"Powerful tool"

4/5

What do you like best about Astera ReportMiner?

What i like the most about report miner is the ability to create functions and calculate fields. I like that to create the model is really easy, it has a tool to grab the rows just by clicking.

is intuitive, and powerful.

you can zoom the file if the file has many fields and you need more space to separate the fields.

you can also test the export before exporting. it convert the data type depending on the value that you get in the field, from datatime, int, or text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astera ReportMiner?

sometimes it get stuck in the data region when the file is too long.

there is a limit on the pages, it allows you to convert files no more than 60 pages i guess, we have an issue with a file that was 100 pages long and we need to split the file in 3 parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Astera ReportMiner:

i will recommend to include the OCR functionality for free, there are too many tools out there that include OCR and other that the price are really slow, so the cost for the OCR one is expensive in comparison with other tools out there that has that functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astera ReportMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?

converting files from pdf to excel table format and then we can transform that final export to our need format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/22/2016

"Extremely Useful and reliable tool"

4/5

What do you like best about Astera ReportMiner?

I love that once I have created a report model I can use it over and over. Having that reliable tool and consistent model that I can return to and easily use months later is wonderful.

I have also found the pre-recorded learning sessions to be extremely useful. I came into this tool with no idea how to use it and was able to reference the videos and figure out enough to use the tool effectively on my own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astera ReportMiner?

I wish there was an easier way to save and re-use data flows. I also wish there was a way to keep things you use open - like a favorites bar where I could place the add a constant value function and grab it wihtout having to open tools and drag it from there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Astera ReportMiner:

This is a great tool for someone who needs to run a process (report Model) to convert files to a different format. I have found it to be extremely reliable and convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astera ReportMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am re-formatting files that were inconsistent in format in order to grab only the parts of the file I need in a workable format for import into my other system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.