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Leveraging Data Analytics - Turning Unstructured PDF documents into structured datasets

“When working with PDF documents, before importing your collected information to your database for further analysis, you usually need to convert your documents from PDF to JSON.”

Why does Data analytics matter?

From driving process and cost efficiencies to improving financial performance and monitoring customer retention, more c...

December 10, 2021 Nouhaila Idrissi

How Parsel converts PDFs to Excel without software

As a fully online service, Parsel doesn't require any software download or installation. Simply sign up, drag and drop your files and extract your PDF data from the convenience of your browser. In this post, we explain how Parsel is able to convert PDFs to Excel without software.<...

August 31, 2021 Andrew Johnson

PDF invoice data extraction made simple with Parsel

Simply drag and drop your PDF invoices into Parsel and let our technology analyse, identify and extract your invoice data into the filetype of your choice in minutes.

Though we've blogged previously about Parsel's best-in-class ability to extract and convert PDF data to Excel, we haven't discussed the specific use cases that our extraction technology can b...

July 19, 2021 Andrew Johnson

Parsel output types explored: JSON

This second post in the series takes a look at another output file type that our clients use to analyse their PDF table data and power their applications: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

How Parsel helps clients analyse table data in PDFs

Parsel's core proposition is to turn table data from PDF documents (and image files) into structured data t...

June 24, 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

Parsel output types explored: Microsoft Excel

This first post in the series takes a look at one of the main output file types that our clients use to analyse their PDF table data and power their applications: Microsoft Excel.

How Parsel helps clients analyse table data in PDFs

Parsel's core proposition is to turn table data found in PDF documents (and image files) into May 17, 2021 Ian Watt

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