A good name for an application for extracting text automatically
I'm struggling to come up with a good name for my application. I have managed to create a short list, but I'm not really happy with any of the entries. Before I post the list for feedback, I was hoping someone here has some suggestions (I don't want to influence you by seeing the list first).
The basics:
- Description: https://nottoobadsoftware.com/xtracter/ . Disregard the name of the page, that is just my internal name for the project. And the page is clearly not finished, but should give you a good idea of what the application does.
- Market: developers, pro users and prosumers. I'm not sure the last 2 groups know what a parser is, so I don't think I want to use the term “parser” in the name.
- Domain: I don't need the .com domain for the name to be available, I plan to host all the information about the application at my website nottoobadsoftware.com. But having a .com or .app domain to redirect to my website would be a plus.
- Preferences: the name should preferably have an obvious spelling and pronunciation.
- A few use cases:
- programmers:
- create a parser to use in their own code
- pro users:
- automation
- convert from a format they don't know how to handle to formats they do know or create themselves
- programmers:
#feedback #name
Nice application.
Sometimes naming is the hardest step of creating a business.
I think you should have a separate domain name for your product. dofo.com can make searching domain names easier. I suggest you try it.
Disclaimer: I'm working at dofo.
RegexpKiller
😄 that is exactly what I should have called it internally! I really don’t like writing anything but the simplest parsers in regexp and this application is a way to avoid them.
But sadly it is too technical a term to use for the official name.
I depends on who is your target audiance. To be honest I didn't grasp that from the site.
developers, pro users and prosumers.
From the video I see that it's ML-powered highlighter.
highlight.ai would be perfect, but it's taken.
you can play around with "grep" (aka the tool for searching text pieces). grep.app or autogrep.app could be free.
P.S. I suspected it was an auto regex generator, but now I see you state it clearly, so your TA is familiar with the concept of regex? Why not play with that word then? regex.ai is squatted and sells for $5000, but regexp.ai is still free (the usual $60/yr on namecheap but grab it fast before anyone else does), If you have some money to spend (minimum is 2 year), even if you don't make the product this could be a good investment in a premium domain name.
It is not using machine learning, but I'm glad it looks like it does :-)
I think "grep" is too technical and probably not widely known by non-programmers.
The same goes for regex. I want to have a wider audience than programmers and IT people. But I could add a feature to generate regular expressions, that could definitely be useful.
But good point about using the term on the landing page. I could create a specific section listing features for programmers.
Ah, most of "machine learning" projects is just a collection of IF statements anyway 😉
https://i.redd.it/4yo52bm4z1z01.jpg
Textractor
Too similar to https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-textract-now-in-preview-easily-extract-text-and-data-from-virtually-any-document/
How about...
texplorer
texporter
texeport
texminer
texaminer
texscape
texcavate
texcavator
textraction
textracted
textractify
Nice, thank you. I think “texminer” and “texcavator” are most fitting of these. I also like “TextMiner”.
Tip the best names use alliteration, is short, and rhymes. Or some variation. People remember names which use alliteration better
ParserPal
ParsingPal
PickOut
PickerPall
FindIt
Find.it
...
I don't want to use the term "parser" in the name, too technical. But "FindIt" sounds good, the application does in a way do advanced search.
What about "textract"?
Amazon just beat us to it: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-textract-now-in-preview-easily-extract-text-and-data-from-virtually-any-document/
Ah too bad I think it would've been a great name.
Yes, but luckily they are not a competitor to my application. They focus solely on scanned documents.
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Interesting, I definitely need to give more examples of use cases. And thank you for the suggestions, I have been thinking about using terms like “harvest”. I want to avoid using the word "word" because the application is not specifically for human text, but also computer text like data files and source code files.
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Good idea, I haven’t thought of that.