data extraction
Pulling out facts
Data extraction is the process of retrieving specific information from a source—a database, document, website, or other repository—typically for use elsewhere.
The term appears in computing, business intelligence, and research contexts: The software automates data extraction from PDF invoices.
Web scraping is a common form of data extraction.
The phrase can also describe obtaining information through interrogation or investigation.
- parsingGrammatical structure extraction
- web scrapingAutomated site data extraction
- web crawlerAutomated site indexing program
- SeleniumBrowser automation framework
- textWritten or printed words
HTML · web content · business intelligence · ETL · unstructured · OCR · regular expressions · scraper · harvesting · pull · pull request · security risks · fields · ethical considerations · error handling · cleanse · transform · API
- data processingnormalization, standardization, encoding, scaling, aggregation
- data warehousingstar schema, ETL, transform, load, staging area
- meta-analysismeta-analysis, heterogeneity, publication bias, pooling, weighted average
- web researchweb scraping, web crawling, online surveys, internet research, web analytics
- web scrapingweb scraping, scraping, scraper, scrapers, spider
- decompressiondecompress, unzipping, unzip, unpack, extracting