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Getting ACORD Form Data Automagically — Part I
How to use Python and the ACORD Solutions Group Transcriber
Within the insurance industry, ACORD has been the standards body for normalizing information across the world. The origin of ACORD’s value to the insurance industry (back in 1970) was forms and back then they were paper. Now those forms are digital and that’s good news, but it can also be daunting because there are many versions of many forms (like, thousands of them). It would be nice if there was a service you could just call that knows about all those forms and versions and can just return data from an ACORD Form.
But alas, there is, and it’s from the source — ACORD Solutions Group (an industry-owned subsidiary of ACORD) and it’s called the ACORD Transcriber. In this first part of the series on this topic, I’m going to show you how to connect to Transcriber using Python. If you want to follow along, you’ll need an ACORD Transcriber account with which to do so (the service is not free, to learn more about how to access it please reach out to ASG).
Before I continue, a very special thanks to the good folks at ASG, especially ACORD CEO Bill Peroni and the ACORD Transcriber team, who hooked me up with an environment so I could put the code samples together.
