i2 TextChart is powerful, intuitive user-controlled text extraction and visualisation software that overcomes the challenge associated with the assimilation of unstructured data. The user can quickly identify and transform valuable text-based information into a structured graphical format, facilitating the analytical process.

Distilling vital information from unstructured data, such as content from Word documents, pdf files, e-mails, and Web pages, can be both challenging and time consuming. Important details may be overlooked and key connections scattered throughout multiple documents may be difficult to identify. i2 TextChart allows you to highlight relevant information buried in unstructured content, extract these details, and present them in an intuitive visual format. Given a collection of documents, you can discover and extract information from each document and present findings as a consolidated view.

i2 TextChart delivers powerful text extraction and visualisation capabilities, supporting organizations in their quest to efficiently tap all available data sources.

Undertake effective entity-link extraction and visualisation of unstructured data – identify real world objects including entities, links and their corresponding properties information, transforming unstructured content into structured, analysis-ready data.

Transform text-based information into an easy-to-understand graphical format – quickly create a visual representation of what would otherwise be a mass of written reports.

Achieve accurate and consistent data abstraction from text-based sources – the accuracy of data capture is improved as data is extracted from the source documents; no re-typing or transcription is required resulting in fewer errors.

Uncover high value information held in unstructured data sources quickly – tap into unstructured information that would otherwise go unused, and share marked up documents across the investigating team, empowering analysts to make informed decisions.

Populate searchable charts and databases without having to re-key information – the output from i2 TextChart can be used within other i2 tools, accelerating the analytical process. i2 TextChart output can be opened in i2 Analyst's Notebook®, i2 ChartReader and i2 ChartExplorer, and can also be transferred into i2 iBase databases using file update or a live connection.

Streamline the input of unstructured free-text information into data repositories – the speed of data capture is more efficient due to the optimised data capture process, thereby increasing user productivity.

Document Reading and Conversion facilities that enable you to review Plain Text, Rich Text, HTML, PDF, Microsoft?? Word, Microsoft® Excel, WordPerfect and OpenOffice/StarOffice Write and Calc document formats. For processing purposes, electronic documents are converted into a suitable form and then presented for on screen mark up. Document conversion results in a copy of the original document meaning that the integrity of the original document is maintained.

Document Mark up and visualization is a simple case of highlighting those details to be represented and visualized. Charts are used to provide a visual representation of a document's content. Information is manually extracted from documents, and used to generate a chart through the creation of icons, event frames, theme lines, links and properties. In this way, a visual image is created from the documents.

Integration with i2 iBase enables users involved with data capture operations to push unstructured content held in iBase into i2 TextChart and interactively build visualization. To make the information available for inclusion in the analysis process, the content of the visualizations can then be transferred into an iBase database using iBase Live, a real-time connection between iBase and i2 TextChart, or though file update facility i2 TextChart output can also be integrated with 3rd party databases using i2 TextChart SDK. Read more on iBase Live. Out of the box predefined standard template that contains commonly used entities, links, and properties meaning that you can start visualizing content immediately. A designer tool, provided as part of the product, allows you to create and modify existing templates to fulfil specific requirements. Powerful search tools facilitate the mark-up process by allowing you to easily locate specific text, identical and similar entities, related mark-ups or related chart items within documents using synonym, sounds like and spelled like capabilities. Subsequent documents can be automatically scanned for existing chart items to further expedite the process.

Document Visualisation	Search	iBase Live Integration