Data extraction systems

A web data extraction system can be defined as a platform that implements a set of procedures that take information from web sources. In most cases, the average end users of Web Data Extraction systems are companies or data analysts looking for web-related information.

An intermediate user category often consists of non-specialized individuals who need to collect some web content, often non-regularly. This user category is often inexperienced and is looking for simple yet powerful Web Data Extraction software packages. DEiXTo is one of them. DEiXTo is based on the W3C Document Object Model and allows users to easily create inference rules that point to a portion of the data for digging from a website.

In practice, ...

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