- Getting Started
- Examples Using the Document Understanding API
- Licensing
Overview
DU Cloud APIs can be an alternative to the RPA approach. By initiating an API call, you can:
- find out information about the project, extractors, or classifiers used within the project
- use the digitization APIs
- classify documents using both specialized (Classifying a document example) and generative (Generative classifier example) models
- extract document data using both specialized (Start the extraction fields request example) and generative (Generative extractor example) models
- validate information that was previously digitized, classified, and, or, extracted.
Depending on your use case, you can choose between using asynchronous or synchronous APIs.
- You need to process large documents, with more than five pages.
- You need to handle multiple operations simultaneously. Asynchronous APIs allow concurrent processing and avoid idle time, leading to a higher system throughput. This means that you can send a document and move on to another task instead of waiting for the response.
- You have a large dataset that needs processing, taking significant time.
- You need to process smaller documents with maximum five pages.
- You need real-time interaction, on a request-and-reply basis, and multitasking is not needed. A synchronous API can block other operations while waiting for a response.
- You have a smaller dataset that needs processing.
Classification & Extraction APIs are available for both synchronous and asynchronous consumption. The synchronous consumption supports multi-page documents, up to 5 pages, while the asynchronous consumption posts the request via a start method and retrieves the result via polling.
Use Document Understanding Cloud APIs to access the capabilities the same way as you would via RPA. For consuming the APIs, you can use any programming/scripting language (since the calls are made using HTTP), including RPA.
You can access the APIs via Swagger: In the toolbar of the Document Understanding service, look for the Rest API dropdown, and click Framework.
To try out the capabilities, use Swagger as your sandbox.