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BOSTON, MA -- June
28, 2006 - CambridgeDocs
(www.cambridgedocs.com) a leader in the field of
unstructured data management and enterprise
publishing, today announced the release of the
xDoc Structured Finance Toolkit, a new
application that automates data extraction from
PDF-formatted financial tables. With this new
capability, financial services companies such as
banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies and
other financial institutions are now able to
eliminate the otherwise tedious and error-prone
process of cutting-and-pasting critically
sensitive financial data from tables within
structured finance reports like CDO and ABS
remittance reports.
Award winning CambridgeDocs has long been
recognized as a leader in creating solutions for
re-using information from PDF files. With the
release of the xDoc Structured Finance Toolkit,
CambridgeDocs leverages their technology for
extracting tabular data to deliver an easily
customized data normalization solution optimized
for PDF financial documents.
Rather then trying to
identify random table information within a PDF
file, the xDoc Structured Finance Toolkit
reliably identifies definable sets of tables and
extracts detailed information from rows and
columns within them more accurately then
re-keying or cutting and pasting.
For instance it can
easily extract CUSIP, ISIN, Ratings, Rates,
Balances, Maturity Dates and Spreads for each
Security and even works with notoriously
difficult table types that spread across
multiple PDF pages. Templates can be reused
month to month, and can account for variations
in report formats, additional data being added,
and shifting of report layout.
The xDoc Structured
Finance Toolkit is menu-driven and highly
configurable both in terms of the data it looks
for within a PDF file and the ways in which it
can deliver that data. The extracted data is
managed as XML and can be exported to any other
Schema or DTD, Database or analysis tool, CSV,
MS Excel or even custom HTML or MS Word, making
it simple, for example, to create condensed
summary reports of a deal’s performance.
“Our approach to
recognizing table data is unique,” says Kedron
Wolcott, VP of Engineering at CambridgeDocs
“Rather then applying a ‘guessing algorithm’ to
a PDF, which is problematic with this type of
sensitive data, the xDoc Structured Finance
Toolkit is configured to look for specific types
of tables. Tables can span multiple pages, occur
on different pages each month, come in different
sequences or occur on the same page with other
tables. And on occasion when there are
significant changes to a report structure, our
visual interface makes it easy for a business
user to update the configuration files.”
The xDoc Structured
Finance Toolkit is available as an add-on module
to CambridgeDocs xDoc Converter and can be
downloaded from: http://www.cambridgedocs.com/products/downloads/StructuredFinance.htm
About CambridgeDocs
CambridgeDocs is a leader in the
emerging market for XML-based content
integration. This market deals with
the integration of legacy content with
new XML-based systems (e.g. Content
Management, Enterprise Information
Portals, EAI, and Web Services) and
standards (e.g. DocBook, DITA, HRXML,
RIXML, FPML, NewsML, or any custom XML
schema/DTD’s, etc.).
Towards this end, CambridgeDocs provides
a technology platform & services for
taking existing unstructured and
semi-structured internal and external
content (e.g. MS Word, HTML, PDF, Quark,
etc.), and transforming it into
"meaningful XML". Once transformed, the
content can be made available for
delivery through XML-based Web Services,
classified and indexed within Enterprise
Information Portals, and aggregated,
assembled and published in multiple
different formats including support for
wireless and mobile devices.
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