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Executive Summary
Updated on Apr 9, 2024

ABBYY Vantage and UiPath are not direct alternatives but complementary solutions that work together. UiPath is praised for its positive ROI and strong automation capabilities, while ABBYY Vantage excels in OCR accuracy, automation workflows, and data extraction. UiPath users appreciate the comprehensive automation features, but desire improvements in UI and performance. ABBYY Vantage users value its efficient customer support, but note areas for enhancement in integration, and OCR accuracy.

  • Features: ABBYY Vantage focuses on Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). It excels at extracting data from various document formats (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) with high accuracy using AI and Machine Learning. Vantage offers pre-built "skills" for documents and allows for custom skill creation with minimal coding. UiPath specializes in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). It automates repetitive tasks across various software applications. UiPath integrates seamlessly with ABBYY Vantage, allowing robots to leverage Vantage's document processing skills for tasks that involve structured data extraction.
  • Pricing and ROI: ABBYY Vantage pricing varies based on deployment model (cloud, on-premise) and document volume. While it can be expensive for high-volume processing, Vantage offers a high return on investment (ROI) by streamlining data extraction and reducing manual effort. UiPath offers tiered pricing based on features and number of robots deployed. UiPath can significantly reduce operational costs by automating tasks and improving efficiency. The ROI comes from faster processing times, reduced errors, and improved employee productivity.
  • Room for Improvement: UiPath and ABBYY Vantage reviewers mentioned that the user interface can be complex for non-technical users. UiPath users also reported occasional bugs and limitations in handling complex workflows. ABBYY Vantage requires enhancements in integration capabilities and OCR accuracy.
  • Deployment and Setup Differences: UiPath and ABBYY Vantage offer cloud and on-premise deployment options. Setting up Vantage requires some technical expertise, but the platform provides comprehensive documentation and training resources. UiPath setup is relatively easy with a drag-and-drop interface and a large developer community offering support.
  • Customer Support: Both platforms receive positive reviews on customer support. Users appreciate ABBYY's knowledgeable and responsive support team. UiPath offers extensive self-service resources and a helpful support team. However, some reviewers on [Gartner] mentioned occasional long wait times for complex support issues.

The summary above is based on 1023 interviews we conducted recently with UiPath and ABBYY Vantage users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.

To learn more, read our detailed ABBYY Vantage vs. UiPath Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is easy to use and configure.""The solution has its own language that can be configured many ways and with higher accuracy than other products.""The machine learning capability is pretty good.""Identifies and extract relevant elements from a document.""We are able to extract details from a PDF and put them into a CSV. It is able to extract the details that we are looking for. We have the Machine Learning feature to extract the data with respect to the position of the field.""Verification Station is valuable.""The OCR is the best on the market.""It saves us a lot of manual work."

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"The UiPath community has been great. There are a lot of great mentorships, a lot of forums, and a lot of people who are very interested in growing the community. It's been very nice to work with them. Anybody who is in UiPath has been an amazing partner for us.""The user interface is intuitive and easy to understand. This automation increases the ease of operation for the employees.""It is extremely helpful with our invoicing process.""I like that UiPath makes life easier through its multiple features. It's easy to use through its Excel functionality, a basic application you need. UiPath also has many connectors available, so using the solution is easier.""The feature I like the most is ONEWEB UI automation. UiPath's OCR technology also works well. There is another feature called Action Center that lets you decide what happens after the data is captured.""The AI is also far more advanced than other similar tools, and it is free, which makes it a better product.""The way they stay on top of Orchestrator is really helpful because that has been the platform that controls everything. The dedication to that is pretty helpful. Every time there's a new release, it seems there are more and more features. It's also not hard to learn.""The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is user-friendly."

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Cons
"Quite complex, particularly for those who are not tech savvy.""The initial setup was relatively complex. The people who install it must be knowledgeable about what they are doing.""Could be simplified, particularly the UI.""It's important to incorporate image detection for signatures or other handwriting elements.""This solution should have better integration with RPA solutions such as Blue Prism.""I think that technical support should help instead of developing a solution from scratch every time you reach out to them.""The price for trainings or certifications are on the very, very high side.""I would like to see a machine learning model to make the solution more intelligent."

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"The Citrix automation - the way that it's fragile right now - if that could be made stronger and more stable, that would be icing on the cake for UiPath.""We would like the RPA app that we developed to fall back to one of our APIs and Visual Studio and have that take off.""Even with drag-and-drop the product is a little difficult to use unless you are a programmer.""There should be more clarity around the feedback loop along with the auto-update feature when you deploy machine learning packages. They should give some rule-based options so that if the confidence is returned higher than the previous model trained, then it would auto-deploy. If it is less, then it should send you an email rather than auto-deploy.""The data extraction has room for improvement.""While I like the Academy a lot, it could maybe go deeper into some of the topics.""In the world of NextGen technology, it would be ideal if they could speed up their beta products.""I would like to see higher end AI type features natively in UiPath. Some native integration over time would help."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "For us, the price is reasonable."
  • "We did not go with the licensed version of this solution."
  • "The price of this ABBYY FlexiCapture is a bit expensive and the price is based on how many documents have been captured. For example, one or two million captures."
  • "Its price is a little bit high and can be lower. Its licensing is very expensive. I don't remember exactly, but for each page, it is about four or seven cents, which is too expensive."
  • "Most of our customers have purchased an annual license and if you have multiple developers from other companies, you can assign the license on a monthly basis to developers."
  • "It is expensive as compared to UiPath. We pay for the licensing and the page count."
  • "It is more on the reasonable side as compared to the competition that I am aware of. I'm not an expert on pricing schemes for all sorts of things, but when we offer them a solution, we like to say we're agnostic. So, we offer more than one solution when possible. Amongst the ones that we've offered, ABBYY usually is the more reasonable solution on a big scale. On a small scale, they're all pretty similar. As far as I understand, you pay a license for a number of pages, and that's pretty much it. It has just the rate per page, and it decreases as you scale."
  • "Its price should be a little lower. It is a lot higher than the competition, and if they just break the gap a little, then more people might jump onto their product. Their price is definitely a deterrent in the few cases that I remember. They have monthly and yearly options, and if you want, they also have per project and per page options. They do charge extra for different types of installation. They have the standalone, which is pretty straightforward and a lot cheaper than the server installation. Server installation gives you a lot more, and it gives you control over the environment."
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  • "It costs much less and it does much more than the competitors' solutions."
  • "The pricing differs on the requirements. If there is a huge purchase, then we get a discount. There is not a fixed pricing of the product."
  • "If you want to do a demo trial, it is a 30 days free."
  • "The community edition is completely free. Then, people say, "There is nothing to lose, let me try it.""
  • "There are operational benefits in terms of time savings and user satisfaction of not having to do menial, repetitive tasks."
  • "Traditionally, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism are the biggest things competing against UiPath. Those are usually what most of the clients lean towards, if they see a cheaper licensing option. Clients choose UiPath because it's easier to deploy and learn within their teams."
  • "We saw ROI in 15 days."
  • "They give it away in the community edition for free, so I use it at home."
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    Answers from the Community
    Nesrin Benhayoun
    Mauricio  Dias - PeerSpot reviewerMauricio Dias
    Reseller

    Hello dear Nesrin Benhayoun, hope you are doing fine. There are some big differences between them. I will name 2 of them which for me are the most important:


    1- FlexiCapture is an independent Platform. This means that you will be able to automate any department demand for documents context (now so called content), no matter this department "is, or is not" provided  with UiPath bot (or any other RPA Vendor). You have to think about FlexiCapture spread all over the organization, helping with any document demand.


    2- FlexiCapture has has more than 30 years experience, and developed extremely powerful intelligence layers, which since the beginning have been guided by AI and ML, and this will bring the organizations all over the world the ability to contextualize all the read fields, paragraphs, tables, images (personal pictures for instance) inside a document or inside a set of documents.


    Uipath is at the beginniing of its journey and also has ABBYY FlexiCapture as one of their strategy for IDP offers.


    If you want a real independent and faster IDP solution (no matter the RPA vendor) go for FlexiCapture and let the bots join when they arrive. You don't need for the bots, to start working with this powerful tool that will really scale your automation...anywhere.

    Celestine D. - PeerSpot reviewerCelestine D.
    Reseller

    I think Omar Madaeen has given the response very crisp and clear! When you use it with a a product along with its built in RPA and AI capabilities like UiPath it will become easy to move the process and address the complete value chain of process. 

    Omar Madaeen - PeerSpot reviewerOmar Madaeen
    User

    Dear Nesrin,


    UIPath is using ABBYY FlexiCapture in their projects as an integration to the OCR capabilities, and UIPath AI is something different UiPath artificial intelligence (AI) allows you to scientifically discover automation opportunities and enhance your robots with AI Skills. Simply drag and drop these AI Skills into your workflows—and start automating more it has nothing to deal with OCR.

    Sahil Sharmaa - PeerSpot reviewerSahil Sharmaa
    Real User

    Abbyy Flexi Capture is an OCR solution. UiPath is an RPA platform solution.

    Abbyy Flexicapture mainly excels where Optical Character Recognition input is required (eg. Reading a physical bill and digitizing/extracting information from it) and it cannot interact with other computer applications.

    UiPath on the other hand can automate the overall processes themselves using excel, word or any other application that runs on a computer just like how a human does but faster and better.

    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Vantage is flexible and customizable. It's a low-code/no-code tool, so you don't need to get into detailed coding. You can also use AI to accomplish medium-complex tasks.
    Top Answer:ABBYY's pricing could be improved. I feel like they are losing out on some business because of their pricing. They could expand their customer base by offering more flexible pricing options.
    Top Answer:ABBYY's support model could be improved because we get some complaints from customers regarding the amount of time it takes and the kind of responses we get. They also need to improve their… more »
    Top Answer:I can only speak to UiPath since that is the only RPA solution that I have used. I know that there are specific packages that you can integrate into your project that is specifically made to work with… more »
    Top Answer:Yes, Attended Bots  which can run without centralized control Module. RPA Tools like Automation Anywhere, uiPath ,Power Automation they do support this.
    Top Answer:Microsoft‌ ‌Power‌ ‌Automate‌ ‌is‌ ‌intuitive‌ ‌and‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌integrate‌ ‌and‌ ‌use.‌ ‌I‌ ‌like‌ ‌that‌ ‌there‌ ‌is‌ ‌no‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience‌ ‌necessary,‌ ‌and‌ ‌appreciate‌ ‌the‌ ‌automated‌… more »
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    Overview

    ABBYY Vantage is a next-gen Intelligent Document Processing platform (IDP) designed for digital workforces. ABBYY Vantage uses artificial-intelligence-based technologies to process structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents. ABBYY's award-winning IDP platform (Vantage™) automatically captures, extracts, and classifies the information contained within business documents, turning it into actionable data to fuel other business systems and accelerate digital transformation.

    This intelligent content intelligence platform complements automation tools like robotic process automation (RPA) and business process automation (BPA) with machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities to continuously enhance accuracy and improve the outcomes of automated processes.

    ABBYY Vantage provides a flexible layout and easy-to-use interface. The platform is an advanced AI-OCR (optical character recognition).

    ABBYY Vantage Features

    • AI Skills that process any document: The platform’s core set of AI Skills is a foundation for processing all types of documents - printed, PDFs, barcodes, signatures, and checkboxes - whether structured or unstructured.
    • You can design trained “Skills” or choose pre-trained ones from the ABBYY Marketplace. Choose Skills for invoices, purchase orders, W-2 forms, utility bills, and other documents to leverage automation and save time and costs.
    • No code is necessary when designing skills to process structured and unstructured documents.
    • Strong analytics skills. You can track, measure, and analyze the performance of deployed Skills. By doing this, you can improve document processing automation.
    • Seamless integration with other systems. ABBYY Vantage™ easily integrates with automation platforms such as Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath, and other RPA and BPA solutions. It also integrates with chatbot and mobile app tools.
    • Machine learning for continuous improvement. The platform’s AI Skills continuously improve and become more accurate over time. The system will learn document variations and collect statistical data, improving the process on the go.

    How does ABBYY Intelligent Document Processing work?

    1. Start by picking a Skill from the ABBYY Marketplace or train a new Skill.
    2. Pick any document.
    3. The system will extract data within your document and delivers output to be ingested by any business system.

    ABBYY Vantage use cases

    The easy-to-use, no-code Vantage platform can be utilized to set up and train Document, Classification, and Process Skills for just about any document type and flow. Intelligent Document Processing made simple and accessible. Some examples of documents ABBYY can process include:

    • Utility bills: Extracts the supplier’s name, statement date, customer name, and address.
    • Personal earning statement: ABBYY Vantage can extract data from pay stubs and help you verify an individual’s earnings and employment status.
    • 1040: Captures the data from 1040 forms for tax processing purposes. Includes name, amounts, filing status, and other details.
    • Identity documents: Extracts information from 10,000 different identity documents from 248 different countries.
    • Remittance: It can capture headers, footers, and in-line details from payment documents.
    • Arrival notice: Captures data from shipping documents, including the consignee, shipper, parties, carriers, and other relevant details.

    You can use Vantage to digitize, automate, and process almost any type of document. It can be especially effective for a number of use cases, including:

    • Customer onboarding and due diligence, including Know Your Customer (KYC).
    • Shipping and logistics, such as shipping instructions, bills of lading, freight forwarding orders, and customs clearance documentation.
    • Insurance claim processing, reading through OCR documents, eliminating human error, and improving the process of insurance claims.
    • Banking and finance. For instance, processing the banking documents associated with loans.

    ABBYY Vantage Benefits

    • Automation: Ready-to-use AI skills designed to improve the immediate processing of documents.
    • Customization: Design your own AI Skill to process specific document types.
    • Built-in Skill automation, connectors, and intelligent process assets.

    UiPath is a user-friendly automation software that streamlines business processes by automating repetitive tasks. It offers extensive automation capabilities, seamless integration with other systems, and robust security measures. 

    Users appreciate its intuitive design, ease of use, and ability to automate complex workflows. 

    Its seamless integration with various applications ensures smooth data exchange and enhances workflow management, while strong security measures protect sensitive data and maintain compliance with industry standards.

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    Fujitsu, Plustek, Samsung, Panasonic, M-files
    1. Accenture 2. Deloitte 3. PwC 4. IBM 5. Capgemini 6. KPMG 7. Ernst & Young 8. Infosys 9. Cognizant 10. Wipro 11. Tata Consultancy Services 12. HCL Technologies 13. Genpact 14. Tech Mahindra 15. DXC Technology 16. Atos 17. NTT Data 18. CGI 19. L&T Infotech 20. Hexaware Technologies 21. Mindtree 22. Mphasis 23. Virtusa 24. Syntel 25. Zensar Technologies 26. WNS Global Services 27. Hexaware Technologies 28. Larsen & Toubro Infotech 29. Persistent Systems 30. QuEST Global 31. Sonata Software 32. Zensar Technologies
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    Buyer's Guide
    ABBYY Vantage vs. UiPath
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about ABBYY Vantage vs. UiPath and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    ABBYY Vantage is ranked 6th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 46 reviews while UiPath is ranked 1st in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 760 reviews. ABBYY Vantage is rated 8.0, while UiPath is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of ABBYY Vantage writes "Genius-level AI with very easy setup and implementation processes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of UiPath writes "Facilitates end-to-end automation, has good AI and document understanding capabilities, and saves us costs previously spent on manual tasks". ABBYY Vantage is most compared with UiPath Document Understanding, HyperScience, Microsoft Power Automate, Tungsten TotalAgility and OpenText Intelligent Capture, whereas UiPath is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, Automation Anywhere (AA), Blue Prism, Robocorp and Syntel SyntBots. See our ABBYY Vantage vs. UiPath report.

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