Print Images, Unstructured Content
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Spidering Web Pages/Building a Database From Web Pages and Internet Content
There are occasions where valuable data is stored in web pages at one or more web sites. These web pages might contain data that you want to include in an analysis, spreadsheet, or database. Getting the data into a spreadsheet, database, or flat file can be time consuming and often clients will resort to manually inputting the data. Appian Analytics can get the database created for you by spidering the web sites and parsing the data into data fields. What's more, it doesn't matter if the web pages are are static or dynamically generated.

Examples of Important Data Contained in Web Pages

Census Bureau Data

What is a Print Image?
A print image is a data file report that is created for presentation and printing. Often, older systems, especially mainframes, will output these types of reports. Generally, they are created using ASCII characters set in the file in such a way that it literally looks exactly how it will print. Again, this was the original way of creating reports for distribution via paper.

The issue is that there may be valuable information stored in these print image files that is not easy to analyze in separate spreadsheets and databases. Often, to accomplish an analysis with this data, the user needs to type the data from the print file into a spreadsheet or database before being able to perform any work.

Example Print Image with Important Data - Government Subcontracting Opportunities

What is Unstructured Content?
Unstructured content is a common name for information or data that lacks a consistent and systematic organization. Without consistent and systematic organization, the information or data cannot be analyzed effectively with common data analysis tools such as spreadsheets, databases, and other analytical applications. Therefore, to gain maximum value from unstructured content you either need to use special textual mining and analysis tools or extract the content and input the content into a structure that will facilitate analysis.

Example Unstructured Content/Partially Structured Content

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