Extracting data

How to use Parseur core features to parse and extract data from emails and documents

17 articles in this collection
Written by Sylvestre and Sylvain

Fix documents with "New Template Needed" status

What to do when Parseur couldn't process your document

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Extract metadata from emails and documents with Metadata fields

How to use Metadata Fields to automatically add document metadata to your parsed result

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Add custom values to extracted data with Static Fields

How to use Static Fields to add custom data not found in the original document

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

HTML and Text parsing engine

Extract tables and repetitive structures

How to extract variable length tables and repetitive blocks in Parseur

Written by Sylvain
Updated over a week ago

Extract text from PDFs and plain-text documents

Tips and best practices to parse plain-text documents like PDFs.

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Use the source view to extract links and hidden attributes

How to use the Source view in the Template Editor to capture hidden attributes like links

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Understand how the parsing engine works

Understanding how Parseur works in order to get the most out of your templates

Written by Sylvain
Updated over a week ago

OCR parsing engine

Use Labels to dynamically position fields (Dynamic OCR)

How to use the Labels to capture data from fields that can move horizontally or vertically in a document

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Extract text from PDF tables (OCR)

How to setup your OCR template to extract text from tables in PDFs

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Predefined mailboxes and ready-made templates

Use predefined mailboxes and ready-made templates

How to use Parseur ready-made templates to extract from documents automatically without managing templates

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Food Ordering predefined mailbox

Supported platforms and extracted fields of the "food ordering" predefined mailbox

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Real Estate predefined mailbox

Supported platforms and extracted fields of the real estate predefined mailbox

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Advanced topics

Download and parse a webpage from a link in a document

How to automatically download a webpage and parse its content

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Understand how Parseur picks a template

How to work with multiple templates and ensure Parseur always picks the right one

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Working with email attachments

How to extract text from documents attached to emails

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Working with field constraints

Add field constraints to be more restrictive on the content of a field

Written by Sylvestre
Updated over a week ago

Scrape web pages using Parseur Chrome Extension

How to download and parse web pages using our Google Chrome extension

Written by Sylvain
Updated over a week ago