10.2 Extract Companies Processor

The Extract Companies processor is designed to extract potential company names from an input string. It produces two outputs, the company as extracted and a category for the retail area of this company (e.g. Home and Garden, Clothing and Fashion)

Table 10-5 Input Attributes

Attribute Name	Data Type	Description	Mandatory
Input String	String	The input to extract from	Y

Table 10-6 Output Attributes

Attribute Name	Data Type	Description
ExtractedCategories	String Array	Categories as relating to the extracted Companies.
ExtractedCompanies	String Array	Companies as extracted from the input.
RemainingInput	String	Any of the input string which was not extracted as a Company.
Input.Standardized	String	This is a copy of the input string, its inclusion is an artefact of how published processors work.
AttributesExtractedFlag	String (Y/N) (Flag)	Whether any companies were extracted from this record - Yes (Y) or No (N).

Table 10-7 Options

Option Name	Data Type	Default	Description
Companies	Reference Data	Profile – Product Data – Companies	The Companies to extract, contains a lookup column with the original company to look for in the input string and a standardized version of that company.