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Extracting handwritten documents using Nanonets

90%

Accuracy

95%

Time Saved

140K

Pages Processed

Industry
Economics
Document types
Handwritten Statistic Sheets
Location
Paris, France
Integrations
Proprietary Tools

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Client:

Our Client - Florian Oswald, is an Assistant Professor of Economics at SciencePo university in France. He is a Ph.D. researcher with a focus on Urban and Macro Economics. His research utilizes computational techniques and modeling for structural estimations of economic models.


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Florian, Assc. Professor Science Po

The Challenge

Florian is currently researching the structural changes to land usage in Urban cities. This required him to analyze France’s historical land usage patterns starting from the 18th Century.

He had to extract data like land usage and value from 140,000+ hand-written documents. These data were present in non-standard table format where the data from one column or row might intersect with another. Traditional OCR tools would be unable to capture the data from such a format, and it would take him months to process manually.

Florian required a user-friendly, robust, and accurate solution for extracting data!


The Solution

Nanonets AI is well equipped to automate the manual processing of documents in any format, font, and language. Florian could see instant results with little effort to train the AI model!

Nanonets AI has been trained with millions of documents and can extract data from unstructured document types. With some training, the AI could differentiate between intersecting rows and columns.

With Automated Workflows, they could place post-processing rules to identify errors and reduce validation time. They could get started in a day, making it easy for him to choose Nanonets.


I couldn't believe how easy it was to get started with Nanonets. And the results were incredible - I was able to extract data with over 95% accuracy in just 2 hours.

Assc. Professor Science Po
Florian Oswald

The result

Before
Months
Manual data processing
After
2 Hours
Automated data processing

The Result

Florian’s research was quite time-constrained and must be completed before a deadline. Manual processing wasn’t an option as it would be quite time-consuming for him, and outsourcing would be quite expensive. They wouldn’t have been able to perform the analysis without a smart automation tool like Nanonets.

With Nanonets, the total time to process over 140,000 documents was just over 2 hours. This data extraction process became trivial to the project.

Even without specialized AI training, they saw a very high 90-95% accuracy. This could have been easily improved through specialized training of the AI model. However, they were able to resolve it fairly quickly!

With our limited resources, we wouldn't have been able to process the data without Nanonets.

Florian Oswald
Assc. Professor Science Po