Astera ReportMiner vs. Octoparse

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Astera ReportMiner
Score 8.3 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Astera ReportMiner automates data extraction from unstructured documents with a drag-and-drop UI. It is used to create reusable, pattern-based templates. Combining AI and template-based extraction, ReportMiner allows for auto-generating and fine-tuning templates.N/A
Octoparse
Score 7.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Octoparse is a no-code web scraping tool offering hundreds of online scraper templates designed for various scraping scenarios, such as e-commerce, social media, lead generation, Google search, financial data, real estate, and job search. Users can collect desired data points through point-and-click actions. Features like API integration, cloud storage, cloud execution, and task scheduling provide a more flexible scraping experience. For more complex data scraping needs,…
$0
per month per user
Pricing
Astera ReportMinerOctoparse
Editions & Modules
ReportMiner Enterprise
Contact sales
per user
Free
$0
per month per user
Standard
$119
per month per user
Professional
$299
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Astera ReportMinerOctoparse
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts are provided for 10 pack, 20 pack, 50 pack, and enterprise-wide ReportMiner Professional licenses.16% discount for annual pricing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Astera ReportMinerOctoparse
Best Alternatives
Astera ReportMinerOctoparse
Small Businesses
Skyvia
Skyvia
Score 10.0 out of 10

No answers on this topic

Medium-sized Companies
Square 9 Softworks
Square 9 Softworks
Score 9.7 out of 10

No answers on this topic

Enterprises
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Score 9.9 out of 10

No answers on this topic

All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Astera ReportMinerOctoparse
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(7 ratings)
6.1
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Astera ReportMinerOctoparse
Likelihood to Recommend
Astera Software
Astera ReportMiner is well suited for those who work with EMR Data or business operations data where different platforms may report on similar data but not everything is the same between the different systems and how they export their data. It works especially well when systems can't edit their exports so you need to clean up data a lot before they are combined into a single file. It is less appropriate a solution when you are trying to combine large data, let's say thousands of files and need some sort of platform to deduce analytic patterns out of it. This is more used for data preparedness rather than big data analysis. This may have changed with recent updates, however they do not do a good job of updating customers on new releases so keeping track of their developments is something worth doing if data management is an important part of your/your company's role.
Read full review
Octopus Data Inc
Octoparse is utilized to scratch item information from sites and programming projects that don't give XML or API and import them in web based businessAdditionally, it has solid capabilities to extract data from various types of sites, which is truly splendid. However it is not suitable to be used only in the free version as the features and usecases are limited.The user woould not face issues in implementation in the premium version. Implemetion specificallly in web-crawling does not require octoparse completely,but scrapping data, yes.
Read full review
Pros
Astera Software
  • ReportMiner's OCR accuracy is flawless to my experience. I use the program to pull values from check details, and have yet to find an error.
  • ReportMiner's interface is easy to learn. I never even got formal training on the program. I watched some YouTube videos and learned as I went.
  • ReportMiner training personnel is very knowledgeable and quick to respond. Anytime I ran into a problem I could not figure out on my own, they would get back with me within a half a day.
Read full review
Octopus Data Inc
  • user design is easy to understand compared to other automation tools
  • the support team is helpful, they really answer
  • the software can get data into spreadsheets, and in a large number
  • there is a free plan to start
Read full review
Cons
Astera Software
  • Could provide some features to help with advanced analytics for big data. (i.e. larger data sets)
  • Too much clutter on their Youtube page, they should highlight the tutorials so they are easier to find for new users. Get rid of old tutorial video playlists so the organization is clean and up to date.
  • Have sales rep follow up with customers to offer product updates, new product releases, and do check ins to see if customers have suggestions for feature improvement.
Read full review
Octopus Data Inc
  • Haven't had any issues with the program or company. But there's certainly a learning curve. More tutorial videos wouldn't hurt.
Read full review
Likelihood to Renew
Astera Software
It is the best way to get a multi line record from pdf to Excel in one row.
Read full review
Octopus Data Inc
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Astera Software
I have never actually used another program like ReportMiner. Before I was just using PDF viewers such as Adobe that had OCR capabilities. I would have to select a range of numbers and copy and paste to Excel. It was tedious, slow, and sometimes error prone. I chose to learn ReportMiner because it saves me at least 4 times the amount of time I would have to use by copy and pasting.
Read full review
Octopus Data Inc
Other similar products like webautomation.io and webscarpper.io were tried and implemented along with Octoparse. Thier trial versions have much more limited features. The complexity while using Octoparse is relatively low and much more effecient and powerful to implement as compared to other softwares. Also usecases are quick to learn and implement.
Read full review
Return on Investment
Astera Software
  • Efficient and automated data extraction. Saves time and resources.
  • User-friendly interface and good documentation. It is therefore easiest to learn and apply in a short time.
  • Documents, which have various formats of data tables or arrangement, needed a lot of manual fixing. So it required a lot of time for validation and quality control.
Read full review
Octopus Data Inc
  • it gives profound database for my research and make the whole process a lot more easier. the power of automation!
Read full review
ScreenShots

Astera ReportMiner Screenshots

Screenshot of the AI-powered data extraction in Astera Report Miner that allows users to extract information from unstructured data sources automatically without creating templates.Screenshot of the automated report mining that generates report models for each file in the folder and successfully generated files to the AI Generated Report Models folder.Screenshot of the standalone report models that automatically uses the Auto create layout model in the tool.Screenshot of where 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.Screenshot of the drop-down menu where users can choose purchase orders or invoices. 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.

Octoparse Screenshots

Screenshot of the Octoparse WebsiteScreenshot of Octoparse's Online Scraper TemplatesScreenshot of an Online Scraper (Indeed scraper)Screenshot of the Twitter scraperScreenshot of the Google maps scraperScreenshot of the Amazon scraper