Client:
StarTex Software
StarTex is the team behind EHS Insight, the leading cloud-based Environmental, Health, & Safety management system. StarTex helps its clients manage and remain compliant with government regulations, company, or industry standards. Their software provides compliance insights from their client’s data through a comprehensive suite of modules and analytics. These modules could help with Audits, Incident management, training management, and Quality management. They are an established business based out of Texas, USA, with over 500,000 users worldwide from various industries like Chemicals, Transportation, Energy, and Construction.
Nanonets has been invested in our success by understanding our problems and have helped us solve them. We would not have been able to offer the product module without Nanonets
The Challenge
StarTex works in compliance, which requires the processing of millions of documents from vendors across the world. Their clients in the chemical industries receive technical documents called safety data sheets from chemical manufacturers. Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) are a valuable source of safety information for industry and academia. They contain essential data on chemical toxicity & composition that has to be processed for compliance and management. StarTex has to process millions of these information-heavy documents with 10-20 pages per document. Furthermore, the problem is exacerbated as they have different formats based on the vendor. There is little to no room for error; thus, each document needs to be reviewed and approved for veracity.
As they couldn’t offer this feature, their clients had to process them manually, which was very time-consuming and error-prone. StarTex’s competitors have built libraries of safety data sheets by manual processing over decades of operation. StarTex would need to hire a team to create this database manually, which would still take them months or years.
We had to create a database with millions of documents from vendors across the world; it would be impossible for us to manually capture the required fields
The Solution
StarTex collates these safety data sheets while onboarding new clients or on an ongoing basis for older clients. The documents are uploaded to a custom application built by StarTex, which uses the Nanonets API to extract data from these documents.
Nanonets’ AI has been trained with thousands of similar documents, which helps it easily extract required fields. StarTex needs to pull information like hazard category, emergency procedure, manufacturer & product details from these documents. Nanonets does this in seconds with a high level of accuracy from documents of different formats. StarTex can quickly verify the data that Nanonets provides to make the process bulletproof.
Nanonet’s expertise in working with similar business problems provided StarTex with a ready-to-go solution that could be quickly integrated and maintained with minimal effort. In addition, the user-friendly interface made it easy for even non-technical team members to process the documents using Nanonets.
