NLP Lab is the fastest and most efficient way for enterprise teams to annotate text, image and PDFs by leveraging the intelligence and accuracy of John Snow Labs NLP Libraries. It allows to annotate and review documents, but also to transfer this knowledge to DL models without writing a single line of code.
| NLP Lab | LabelStudio | LabelBox | LightTag | TagTog | Prodigy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the Free version for? |
Teams looking for an enterprise-grade, proven, full-featured data labeling platform. | Used by individual data scientists and small annotation teams. | Small teams and individuals looking to test capabilities or validate early-stage experiments. | Individual users | Open: Only public labels & datasets. | No Free version available |
| Free edition limitations: | Unlimited Features Free Forever | Limited to a single organization and workspace | Limited to 10k annotations | Limited to single user & 500 labels/month | Limited to public datasets | No Free version available |
| Labeling Features: | ||||||
| Text labeling | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free | Paid |
| Image labeling | Free | Free | Free | N/A | N/A | Paid |
| Video labeling | Free | Free | Free | N/A | N/A | Paid |
| Audio labeling | Free | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | Paid |
| Multi-lingual text labeling | Free | Free | N/A | Free | Team | Paid |
| Span annotations & overlapping entities | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free | Paid |
| Label relations & dependencies | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free | Paid |
| Projects & Teams: | ||||||
| Multiple projects | Free | Free | Free | Team | Free | Paid |
| Project grouping | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Project searching/filtering | Free | N/A | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Full API access | Free | Free | Pro | Team | Team | Paid |
| Task assignment | Free | Enterprise | Free | Team | Free | N/A |
| Task tagging | Free | N/A | N/A | Team | N/A | N/A |
| Task comments | Free | N/A | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Role based task status | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | Free | N/A |
| Duplicate tasks detection | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Task searching/filtering | Free | Free | N/A | Team | Free | N/A |
| Guidelines | Free | Free | Free | Free | Team | N/A |
| Feedback & Comments on completions | Free | N/A | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Consensus Analysis/IA Agreement | Free | Enterprise | Pro | Team | Free | N/A |
| Quality review workflows | Free | Enterprise | Pro | Team | Team | Paid |
| Performance Dashboards | Free | Enterprise | Free | Team | Free | N/A |
| QA & collaboration | Free | Enterprise | Pro | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| AI-Assisted Text Labeling | ||||||
| Project configuration based on existing models and rules | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Paid |
| Rule editing interface | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Pre-annotations with model assisted labeling | Free | Support for 3rd party ML integration | Enterprise | Team | Enterprise | Paid |
| Active learning: auto-retrain models on the fly | Free | Enterprise, Support for 3rd party ML integration | N/A | N/A | Pro | Paid |
| Transfer learning: start from pre-trained models | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Paid |
| Bring your own models | Free | Support for 3rd party ML integration | Enterprise | Team | Free | Paid |
| Precision/Recall Reports for Trained Models | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Paid |
| Model Hub Integration | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Security & Privacy: | ||||||
| Role-based access controls | Free | Enterprise | Pro | Team | Enterprise | N/A |
| Role-based views | Free | Enterprise | N/A | Team | Enterprise | N/A |
| Annotation Versioning | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Full audit trail | Free | N/A | N/A | Enterprise | Enterprise | N/A |
| LDAP/AD integration - User import/Login | Free | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | N/A |
| Single Sign On - User import/Login | Free | Enterprise | Pro | Enterprise | Enterprise | N/A |
| On-Premise / Air-Gap Deployment | Free | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Paid |
| Annotation on PDF and image documents: | ||||||
| Support for multi-page scanned or generated PDFs | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | Pro | N/A |
| Selectable PDFs | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | Pro | N/A |
| Scanned PDFs | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Support for image annotation (png) | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Text search in image documents | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Multi line chunk annotations | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Sticky token selection | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Custom region annotation | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Relations annotation | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Zoom features | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Healthcare features: | ||||||
| Pre-annotations with rules & regex | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Paid |
| Pre-annotations with dictionaries | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | Team | Paid |
| Automatic detection of 100+ clinical and biomedical entities | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Automatic detection of clinical assertion status detection (negation detection) | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Automatic detection of 30+ healthcare-specific relation extraction | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Automatic entity normalization (coding) to 10+ medical terminologies | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Transfer learning for named entity recognition models | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Ready to use healthcare-specific word, chunk, and sentence embeddings | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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