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Harnessing the value of customer data: How to automatically collect and populate customer records

In today's digital age, customer data can open a lot of doors for optimization opportunities. Intelligent businesses can collect and leverage their customer information to learn more about their client base and improve their user experiences.

But manually collecting every piece of information and entering it into one place, e.g., a CRM, can be very costly and time consuming.

This is...

July 9, 2022 Nouhaila Idrissi

Leveraging document parsing APIs for business automation

In this blog post, we explore a term that you've probably heard quite a bit. That term is API, or Application Programming Interface. We’ll discuss what an API does, why they exist and how you can leverage API in business process automation, specifically in document/PDF parsing and data extraction.

What is an API?

Though the concept originated in the 1940s, the termJanuary 18, 2022 Nouhaila Idrissi

How to turn your company reports into Excel files with Parsel

Company reports contain some of the most valuable data for businesses, yet that information is often locked away in PDFs, making it difficult to analyse in-depth. With Parsel's unrivalled accuracy on financial data, extracting that data is much easier than you might think.

Company reports can come in many forms. Earnings reports, balance statements, financials, ...

October 13, 2021 Ian Watt

How to convert your PDF to JSON online with Parsel

Simply drag and drop your PDFs into Parsel and let our extraction technology analyse, identify and convert your PDF tables into JSON documents in minutes.

Over the past 15 years, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become a staple of data transference for web services. Being easy to read and write, and sim...

June 15, 2021 Andrew Johnson

The principles of Parsel's serverless architecture: Secure, scalable & supple

In this post, we hear from the head of Parsel's data science team, Daniel Vliegenthart, about the technical architecture under the hood of Parsel and what that means for handling large document processing workloads without any performance degradation.

From the moment we first started thinking about Parsel as a product, we had three adjectives in mind for i...

March 19, 2021 Daniel Vliegenthart

How to convert PDFs to Excel for free with Parsel

Used by almost every business in every industry, PDFs are a common way to store and share information. But when information is stored in a PDF, it becomes much more difficult to edit for future use. In this blog, we’ll explain how to easily convert your PDF data to Excel using Parsel.

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably encountered a problem like this b...

March 10, 2021 Andrew Johnson

How to analyse macroeconomic data with Parsel

A Senior Economist at Tellimer Research, Patrick Curran, explains how the varied quality of macroeconomic data he works with makes analysis a difficult and arduous process. But with Parsel’s advanced table recognition and extraction, these colossal datasets can now be structured in mere minutes.

As an economist, working w...

February 20, 2021 Patrick Curran

How to extract data from PDF tables with Parsel

Extracting data from PDFs, made simple

In almost every profession, PDFs are used to store information. That information can come in all shapes and sizes – survey data, payroll information, company financial analysis, invoices, vast macroeconomic data sets – and PDFs are a convenient, universa...

February 10, 2021 Ian Watt