Our client is an award-winning eLearning company that offers corporate training solutions to help improve workforce performance while driving business on a global level. With over 25+ years of experience in building meaningful learning solutions, the brand has helped transform people into leaders of tomorrow with a 360-degree approach to training, leadership, procurement, and consulting.

Our client was faced with multiple challenges in their quest to gather tabular data from PDF files that contained numerous financial details. One of the biggest problems was to extract information accurately for multiple channels within a single file. This meant that to avoid any discrepancies in the extraction of data, a sophisticated extraction tool needed to be used. The current in-house tool uses Python, Tesseract, Spacy, and Transformer to gather bulk data from PDFs.

Another issue that our client faced is that while the in-house PDF system is robust, it cannot extract tabular data from certain PDFs. This incomplete data extraction hinders the ability to not only gather insights but also impact the entire decision-making process. Our client wanted a solution to balance the cost-effectiveness while ensuring that the data extracted was accurate. However, a cost-intensive solution for every single PDF file did not seem practical. So, to strike the right balance between cost and efficiency was the need of the hour.

To address the challenges, we at Arrk designed a two-tiered solution that combined the in-house tool with AI-driven technology.

For the in-house PDF crawling system, we implemented an algorithm that is capable of handling multiple financial instruments and tables within a single PDF file. The system was made to crawl the PDFs periodically to extract the data and prioritize accuracy above all else. By using the in-house solution, we allowed our client to achieve bulk extraction of data without any additional costs.

To act as a safe gate where the in-house solution did not work, the PDF was automatically routed to the AIMLbased Amazon Textract solution. The tool is driven by advanced machine learning to work as a fail-safe mechanism where all tabular data can be extracted accurately from PDFs. But, this platform would only be used when the in-house tool failed. Optimizing the use of Amazon Textract meant that the client’s expenses were minimized and were now cost-effective.