Compliance monitoring · Production

StarTex Software digitizes chemical Safety Data Sheets with Nanonets AI extraction

The problem

StarTex needed to process millions of multi-format Safety Data Sheets from chemical manufacturers worldwide for compliance, but the volume, format variation, and zero-error requirement made manual processing infeasible — clients had to do it themselves, and building an internal database manually would take months or years.

First attempt

StarTex could not offer an SDS processing module, forcing clients to perform manual, error-prone extraction. Competitors had built their SDS libraries through decades of manual effort — a path too slow for StarTex to replicate.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
SDS documents uploaded
trigger
“The documents are uploaded to a custom application built by StarTex”
2
Nanonets API called
integration
“which uses the Nanonets API to extract data from these documents”
3
AI extracts required fields
ai_action
“Nanonets' AI has been trained with thousands of similar documents, which helps it easily extract required fields. StarTex needs to pull information like hazard category, emergency procedure, manufacturer & product details from these docu…”
4
StarTex verifies extracted data
human_review
“StarTex can quickly verify the data that Nanonets provides to make the process bulletproof”
Reported outcome

With Nanonets, StarTex can extract required fields from multi-format SDSs in seconds with high accuracy, enabling a new product module that was previously impossible to offer.

Reported metrics
Extraction speedin seconds
Extraction accuracyhigh level of accuracy
Manual database build time (counterfactual)months or years
Manual processing quality (counterfactual)very time-consuming and error-prone
Reported stack
Nanonets APINanonets
Source
https://nanonets.com/customer-success-story/startex-digitizes-chemical-safety-data-sheets-with-nanonets
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

With Nanonets, StarTex can extract required fields from multi-format SDSs in seconds with high accuracy, enabling a new product module that was previously impossible to offer.

What tools did this team use?

Nanonets API, Nanonets.

What results were reported?

Extraction speed: in seconds; Extraction accuracy: high level of accuracy; Manual database build time (counterfactual): months or years; Manual processing quality (counterfactual): very time-consuming and error-prone (source-reported, not independently verified).

What failed first in this deployment?

StarTex could not offer an SDS processing module, forcing clients to perform manual, error-prone extraction.

How is this compliance monitoring AI workflow structured?

SDS documents uploaded → Nanonets API called → AI extracts required fields → StarTex verifies extracted data.