topic Re: Reading unstructured data into SAS Dataflux in SAS Data Management

Reading unstructured data into SAS Dataflux

NigelLight — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:54:19 GMT

Hi,

Looking at the Data Inputs node within Dataflux v2.5 - there is an option of reading unstructured data by using the Document Conversion option

We have a business requirement to read unstructured data that is held in a .TIFF file. This format isn't mentioned in the help documents - does anybody have any experience of reading this format into SAS Dataflux?

I don't have much knowledge of reading unstructured data but from Wikipedia .TIFF appears to be a supported Adobe format.

All tips - plus any other relevant information most appreciated

Thanks

Nigel

Re: Reading unstructured data into SAS Dataflux

TomKari — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:06:44 GMT

My experience with .TIFF files is that they are used for images, in which case I can't imagine any data processing tool that would import them.

1. Can you import them into anything else as data?

2. If they are images, are they images of records, in which case can you process them with OCR software?

Tom

Re: Reading unstructured data into SAS Dataflux

NigelLight — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:16:41 GMT

Hi TomKari

Thanks for the advice - you really have pointed me in the right direction (and sorry if I am asking the obvious but this is new to me)

Asking for more details apparently what I am looking to extract are document copies (ie old insurance policy documents) which are being held as a 'zyimage' - a sort of scanned image

Looking at the website ZyIMAGE Software - Document Management and Imaging Software Directory it seems that zyimage have some sort of propriatory reader (which incorporates 'fuzzy' logic) - this could be the way forward

regards

Nigel