December 28

Text Tools are great at extracting data from unstructured text such as paragraphs, captions, footnotes, and more. With the introduction of "Simple Mode", Alkymi has made using this tool even easier by allowing you to designate target text without using regular expressions (regex). This means that you can specify a known value as your target directly:

If there are multiple instances of your target within your document, you can specify text that comes before or after your target to hone in on the exact occurrence of your target value:

The result is that we are able to extract our exact value without having to define a regex at all:

Please note that if you do not know the exact value you want to extract and instead would like to use format to identify the target, the Advanced Mode would be the Text Tool to use.

As a future improvement upon the Simple Mode experience, we are working to enable you to use prebuilt formats to identify your target, such as dates, phone numbers, emails, and more.