Articles by Ayesha Amjad
13 articlesOCR Scanned Documents: How Intelligent Character Recognition Extracts Data at Scale
Astera ReportMiner uses intelligent character recognition (ICR) to route each scanned document to one of five OCR engines based on automatic quality assessment, with AI-driven semantic correction and deterministic validation at every stage.
Best AI OCR Software in 2026: A Buyer's Guide Backed by User Reviews
A buyer's guide to the top 6 AI OCR tools in 2026 — ABBYY Vantage, Google Cloud Document AI, Amazon Textract, Rossum, Nanonets, and Astera ReportMiner — based on verified user reviews from G2, Capterra, PeerSpot, and Gartner Peer Insights.
What's New and Improved in Astera 11.2
Astera 11.2 is available now for every product on the platform: Centerprise, ReportMiner, EDI Connect. High-volume jobs process up to 2x faster, extraction templates are generated under five seconds with AI-powered Auto-Generate Layout, and Dataflows can run a full retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline without a separate tool. The release also simplifies deployment, and adds email-driven workflow triggers.
How to Automate Data Extraction from IBM Mainframe Reports in Banking
Banks still rely on fixed-width green bar or mainframe reports for reconciliation, settlements, general ledger data, regulatory reporting, and transaction monitoring. Learn how template-based extraction can convert these reports into validated, usable data without manual re-entry.
How to Extract Data from Fiserv Report Files and Write it to Excel
Fiserv platforms generate fixed-width .rpt files containing account, transaction, general ledger, and loan data. Learn how Astera ReportMiner extracts, validates, and writes this data to Excel, CSV, databases, and other destinations.
How ReportMiner Processes Mainframe Reports at Enterprise Scale
Mainframe reports contain valuable operational data, but their fixed-width layouts, multiple sections, and hierarchical structures make extraction difficult. See how Astera ReportMiner extracts, validates, transforms, and delivers this data at enterprise scale.
AI Analytics Is Only as Good as the Data Foundation Underneath It
AI analytics is only as reliable as the data foundation beneath it. See how Astera builds the pipelines, metadata, and models that make AI answers trustworthy.
What It Takes to Build an AI Agent as a First-Class Product
Building a first-class AI agent takes more than a model. See how Centerprise AI delivers the data foundation and governance layer agents need in production.
Introducing Centerprise AI: The Agentic Evolution of Data Integration & Management
A platform to design, test, and deploy data warehouses, pipelines, and data models across all your structured and unstructured sources.
Introducing Agentic Warehouse and Reliable Analytics in Centerprise AI
The Architecture Behind Reliable Document Processing: Components, Integration, and How to Evaluate IDP Solutions
