Likelihood to Recommend We used Connotate as a data mining tool for web research as a teaching assistant for the College of Information Sciences and Technology. You could train agents to automatically gather data in a variety of ways, which I used in my own research. Connotate's analysis was not as useful to me as the data itself, because we were using it to inform us of trends rather than make decisions.
Read full review Kofax [Capture] meets our needs and for the most part is easy to use and setup. Configuration could be a little bit easier. The scripting language is a double edge sword if you will. It gives you nearly unlimited possibilities to script what you need, but the downside is you have to script it. Does a good job at batching and scanning documents. The tool integrates well into our workflow which makes our business partners happy and in turn provides for happy customers.
Read full review Pros Scrapes specific parts of webpages Crawls pages and scrapes based on patterns you specify via examples Very effective and accurate when it comes to scraping data of large URL lists Read full review The VRS application included with Kofax Capture is the best image pre-processing platform available on the market today. It can handle a wide array of common document problems such as skew, flipping, wrinkles, lines, and dots. The platform is incredibly scriptable and can be customized to handle all sorts of unusual document contents to allow information to be extracted that many other platforms just struggle on. Table extraction, line item matching, and smart extraction are all strong points with this platform. Through the use of SBL and .NET the platform can be expanded and scaled quite easily to allow for the software to be integrated into existing business processes and platforms with ease. Read full review Cons Stability. software frequently crashed previously. Training. Students had a had time understanding how to use the tool, and then where to use it. Read full review We struggled with configuring Kofax with AP Automation. We used to receive vouchers in different formats by different companies, by different departments. The people from different departments used to scan those vouchers through regular scanners to a central location, which ended up as image pdfs. We fed these image pdfs through Kofax Capture for character recognition, which was painful as the accuracy of recognition was 50 to 60%. Having a connectors with a workflow tool would be helpful where people can validate and approve the output. More samples and documentation related to use of API in .NET applications would be a good improvement, that would help users to adapt the product easily into their organization. Read full review Likelihood to Renew I do not think I would have the budget to use it currently. When using it previously, was working with the developers to improve the product and was given accounts at no cost
Read full review Cost of Kofax is high, however the cost to benefit scenarios always pay off.
Read full review Usability It's good.
Read full review Support Rating Haven't really used their support yet
Read full review Alternatives Considered [We selected Import.io because] They were top ranking in SEO. I will never work with them again though.
Read full review Quality of data capture. Automatic data integration with Oracle and SAP ERP. Automatic image integration with Oracle and SAP ERP. Automatic invoice booking in Oracle and SAP ERP.
Read full review Return on Investment It really helped to collect large chunks of data from the web. When compared to writing a script from scratch, it is very simple to use for creating a web agent. Read full review We were able to decrease personnel expenditures as there was not a need for individuals to index documents prior to incorporating them into the record. Read full review ScreenShots