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.
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.
"Allows us to run through documents and extract information."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of ABBYY Vantage is flexibility. You are able to edit at a granular level providing good control over the process. Additionally, the brochures and guides were helpful in learning the solution."
"There are a lot of options in ABBYY FlexiCapture, and it is very vast. I have worked with multiple OCR tools, and I found ABBYY FlexiCapture to be the most accurate tool."
"The UI is user-friendly and ABBYY Vantage supports over 100 languages."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to scale for big processes. We are able to process 1 million pages a day. Its accuracy is also very nice. It is a good feature that they have. It is an independent platform, which is its biggest advantage as compared to other solutions. It is also very stable and powerful. It is 100% on time."
"The solution's technical support is very supportive."
"While using ABBYY FlexiCapture we did not use the generic models that they do have for invoice and purchase orders. For one of the use-cases, the document was exactly the purchase order, but we are not using that generic model. We are creating the model from Scratch. However, if I was to compare ABBYY FlexiCapture with other IA tools, the machine learning and how the extraction is done is far better than competitors. This allows a lot less effort for the development."
"One of the reasons UiPath is so successful is the UiPath community. We have tremendous people in the community supporting each other in terms of development or community events."
"In addition to savings in time and cost, UiPath further saves us money because of the reduction in human error."
"This solution has increased productivity in our organization."
"UiPath has a very good user interface, and the automation is a great feature. New users can easily understand UiPath."
"The ability to do citizen development is the most valuable feature. That initiative has helped us to expand it because that gives folks that are closer to the business the ability to develop their own solutions that are tailored to what they need to do, as opposed to waiting for someone in IT to contact them to build it out. Or to wait for a business analyst to provide some type of value metric, but they can actually go and build it themselves."
"The features that are most valuable are Excel Automation, Web Automation, Web Scrapping, and CV Automation."
"UiPath Orchestrator is very user-friendly and easy to understand."
"UiPath has the simplest low-code user interface that I've seen in my professional life."
"Initially, it was good, but now, in terms of ease of implementation and accuracy, there are better competitors in the market. What we are seeing in some of the other tools isn't there in ABBYY. They have to improve it to include such features. Otherwise, it will be difficult for them to compete in the market."
"I would like to see a machine learning model to make the solution more intelligent."
"One major area that requires improvement in ABBYY Vantage is its current JSON output format."
"Since we are using a trial version, we don't have administration access to create a tenant to integrate my OCR series with Postman."
"The integration with UiPath is not good. I would like to see more documentation and guides to help gain more in-depth knowledge of how to use ABBYY FlexiCapture."
"Customization in the solution needs to be modified. In the future, I would like to see the product have better customization functionality."
"The generic models have a lot of areas to improve. In our experience, we are not able to get good results in the generic models. From a developer's point of view, there could be more improvement if the source code is available on a broader scope"
"We would like the workflow building within this solution to be more transparent, which would allow us to model the process."
"The Document Understanding feature should be more developed and advanced. For example, you have to make a template with their ML model. Currently, we can't use our own ML model, and we have to use the UiPath ML model. UiPath has only a few ML models right now. They should come up with more ML models or make it easier for us to use our own ML model."
"UiPath could work towards more engagement on the community practice side. Some of our people are having a hard time understanding how to make sense of the data that UiPath puts out."
"The cost of full deployment is high and there is room for improvement."
"We cannot utilize the UiPath community edition license to operate any bots that we have created using that version in an enterprise environment."
"You can't get the response that you want until the people in the field decide that they want to change and adopt it. That will be the challenge. Managing the change is huge for us. It's always an obstacle. It's not that, can you automate something, it's more of a question of, internally, will they let you automate something?"
"For citizen developers, Studio is difficult. It's just too over their head."
"UiPath's process mining needs to improve a lot. The generated reports are difficult to analyze by ordinary people. Task mining reports are also difficult."
"AI machine learning has room for improvement."
ABBYY Vantage is ranked 6th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 46 reviews while UiPath is ranked 1st in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 765 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, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA), Robocorp and Syntel SyntBots. See our ABBYY Vantage vs. UiPath report.
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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.
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.
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.
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.