Data Extractor (Concept)
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Data Extractor (or just "extractor") refers to all Value Extractors and Extractor Nodes. Extractors define the logic used to return data from a document's text content, including general data (such as a date) and specific data (such as an agreement date on a contract).
Data extractors (or simply "extractors") are used in a variety of ways, including (but not limited to):
- Classify documents
- Find data on a page you wish to store outside of Grooper
- Separate documents
Extractors are highly configurable in terms of how data is targeted, how it is ordered and sorted, how text is pre-processed, what tolerance the extractor has for "fuzzy" results, how results are post-processed and more. However, at their core, extractors are simply tools used to parse text data from a larger text source (e.g. a single field from a whole document).