Data from marriage certificates is more crucial than you might think – historians, employers, and healthcare professionals alike find the data extremely valuable – whether it’s to trace family trees, provide spousal benefits or gain consent in medical processes, respectively. Parishes and municipalities may use this type of automation to keep their records digitized in an orderly fashion. Similarly to birth certificates, these documents are also used by government agencies in demographic analysis, population statistics, and legal documentation. The automated data extraction prevents errors, and helps obtain data faster from large quantities of documents.

The platform supports common file types, including PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PNG, JPG, TIFF, and emails. After data extraction, data appears in a file, ready to be downloaded as CSV or XLSX or safely imported into the internal processing system of your choice through API or Zapier.

Here’s what you can export from marriage certificates: the full legal names of the individuals getting married, including any previous names, along with the date, time, location, birth dates, and the names. Last but not least, the part everyone awaits for which is the signatures of the spouses, witnesses, and officiant. Similarly, birth certificate extracts contain mainly demographic data – full legal names of parents and the child, along with the place, date and nationality. In total, there may be up to 40 different fields that can be potentially extracxted from marriage certificates.