Browser extension development for an Automobile research company to automate the data acquisition process.

Product Brief Solution is a Chrome browser extension developed to improve efficiency and increase accuracy of online research team during the data extraction process. Developed by leveraging Google Vision for optical character recognition, the extension auto-extracts data from online communication tools and images automating the complete process. Second part of the solution consists of development of online web application to present the extracted information to users with advanced search functionalities.

Background Client is California, US based established company in automotive research domain and provides extensive information to support purchase decision of its users. Their research team had to manually extract the data related to various automobiles and manually feed it to their portal. With most of the data being in various image file formats, websites and other online communication tools, it was a time consuming and tedious task directly affecting the efficiency of the resources.

Our Solution Understanding the data extraction needs of the client, Coditude team leveraged OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to extract the data which helped client's research team to extract data and meaningful information from any selected part of website or image and automatically feed it to the portal in the required format.Taking the data extraction one step further, Coditude developed advanced analytical algorithm to predict the relevancy of the extracted data to the database fields and autofill the extracted data into the fields with accuracy.

Challenges

Understanding the client's research offerings, their processes and finding efficient solution to automate the process.

Using various framework and parameter combinations to find out the optimum performance of the solution.

Project Results

20 X increase in the efficiency of the research team

  • Saved more than 700 hours per month of the research team by excluding the manual processes.
  • Increase in the accuracy of the researched data by more.
  • Considering the stringent delivery deadlines, Coditude delivered the solution in the record time and facilitated the transition from manual to automated process with resource training and support.

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