Semalt Expert: 10 Best Data Extraction Tools

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Semalt Expert: 10 Best Data Extraction
Tools

The advantage of data extraction cannot be over-emphasized. Every organization has now woken up to the
advantage of data extraction. Data extraction is now required for a growing number of reasons. It is used for
tracking prices in markets for comprehensive price comparisons, gathering contact info for prospective customers,
a collection of information to draw important conclusion, etc. The list is already endless, and it is still growing.

Unfortunately, companies often nd it dif cult to employ enough hands for the amount of data gathering that they
need. Besides, as much as organizations make conscious efforts to scrape data from numerous sites, they also make
efforts to prevent the content of their sites from being copied easily. After all, the competition among businesses is
gradually turning into business war where no strategy's barred.

So, most companies usually resort to the use of data extraction tools. The bene ts of using data extraction tools are
numerous - speed, accuracy, higher productivity, lower cost, and competitive advantage. However, some tools are
more effective than others for different data extraction needs. To help you narrow your search, some popular and
effective data extraction tools have been outlined below. They are suitable for beginners as well as professionals.

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OutWitHub

This is a very popular data extraction tool. It divides web pages into
different categories based on their elements. Then it goes from page to
page to scrape speci ed data from source websites. The tool is suitable
for gathering images, data tables, email addresses, links, and many more.

Web Scraper

This tool is known for being very easy to use. Its major uniqueness lies in
its ability to extract data from external pages so it is suitable for image
extraction, contact detail extraction, pricing extraction, scraping of email
addresses, and other forms of web data scraping.

Spinn3r

This is more of a service than a tool. It is suitable for spotting and scraping content from blogs all over the internet.
It gives users real-time access to every published blog. So, organizations use it to gather data from news platforms,
review sites, web blogs, forums, social media, and more.

Fminer

This tool is also very popular. It is mainly a visual web scraping tool. So, you can use it as a macro recorder, and a web
data extractor. It works well for document extraction, image extraction, phone number scraping, and gathering of
email addresses.

ParseHub

If you have been into web extraction for a while, this name should ring a bell to you. One of the reasons it is popular
is that it can be used by virtually anyone. It is suitable for scraping prices, phone numbers, contact information,
email addresses and other kinds of documents.

Octaparse

This tool is relatively more powerful than numerous data scraping tools. It scrapes deeper. In addition to the normal
data extraction needs, it can be used to extract IP addresses.

Table Capture

This is an extension of the Chrome browser. Apart from being able to extract data from HTML tables, it can also
convert scraped data into different formats like CSV and Excel.

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Scrappy

This is a mere open source code development framework. Its data
extraction ability is relatively higher than that of others because it uses
Python. So, it can scrape data from multiple websites at the same time.
Unfortunately, that also means that users without programming
knowledge cannot use it.

Tabula

This tool is more of a conversion tool than a data extraction tool. It is an application that supports Linux, Windows,
and Mac OSX. Organizations use it to convert PDF les into CSV or Excel les. This tool is perfect for data
journalism.

Dexi.io

This tool is browser-based, so you don't have to download and install it. What makes it unique is that it can be used
to extract data anonymously with various proxy servers.

Conclusion

After going through the details of the data extraction tools, you will understand that some of them are better for
certain tasks than others. So, you may need to make use of a combination of tools to achieve optimal results.

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