PRELIMINARY

On the end-user side, Introit has built all of their products around an Introit product core. The product core automatically acquires content, the binning engine places the acquired datasheets into a taxonomy, and the extraction engine semi-automatically extracts text and figures and table cell content from electronic component datasheets.

Figure 1 illustrates the Introit product core, and includes the following:

• Web agent – a pdf, html, doc, xls and txt web agent with a search engine defeat mechanism and built-in DOS (denial of service) control; by giving the web agent a single generic part number or many part numbers, the web agent will defeat the target website search engine, and will return with the target document and the associated URL’s.
• Binning – this module will automatically place the downloaded datasheets into a taxonomy based on generic number and by manufacturer.
• Extraction engine – this module will extract appropriate text strings, images, and table cell content from the datasheet based on pre-defined text types, image types, and attributes.

Figure 1. Introit Product Core.