--- description: Find out why DataSnipper DocuMine is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. title: DataSnipper DocuMine: The Best Inventions of 2025 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd91b7c715c0d497c/6998ca3c83ec373807c7af9f/documine-TIME-best-inventions-2025.gif?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 09, 2025 # DataSnipper DocuMine AI-powered financial auditing by [Chris Norris](/author/chris-norris/) ## Chris Norris Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Courtesy DataSnipper Auditors are the frontline workers of financial integrity, ensuring that businesses and governments comply with crucial, increasingly complex regulations. But much of their workday is spent reviewing documents manually. DocuMine, from the Dutch company DataSnipper, uses AI to automate this analysis, as well to verify data and link each insight back to its source. In April 2025, DocuMine launched within Microsoft Excel, which 1.3 million auditors and most finance professionals already use, offering them a smarter, scalable solution for a $217 billion industry that needs faster, more accurate audits—all with uncompromised transparency. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. DataSnipper DocuMine: The Best Inventions of 2025 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318245/datasnipper-documine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318245/datasnipper-documine/"},"headline":"DataSnipper DocuMine","datePublished":"2025-10-09T11:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:46.292Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318245/datasnipper-documine/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","Best Inventions 2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd91b7c715c0d497c/6998ca3c83ec373807c7af9f/documine-TIME-best-inventions-2025.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Norris","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-norris/"}],"creator":"Chris Norris","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd91b7c715c0d497c/6998ca3c83ec373807c7af9f/documine-TIME-best-inventions-2025.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318245/datasnipper-documine/","name":"DataSnipper DocuMine"}}]}] ```