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General Document (General Document)

General Document refers to any type of document that can be processed using the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) API. It encompasses a wide range of document types, including but not limited to handwriting samples, receipts, invoices, and various supported file formats.

Before using the General Document OCR service, please review the OCR limitations that may affect text recognition accuracy.

General Document Object

  • Name
    status
    Type
    string
    Description

    Enum code indicating the status of the reading result.

    1. SUCCESS
    2. NO_FILE
    3. FILE_INVALID_FORMAT
    4. FAILED
  • Name
    reason
    Type
    string
    Description

    A human-readable message providing more details about the reading result.

  • Name
    read
    Type
    object
    Description

    Contains the reading for General Document fields.

    • Name
      all_texts
      Type
      array of object
      Description

      Array of all texts available in image. Each element has polygon (coordinates of the value: top-left, top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left) and value (the reading).

    • Name
      tables
      Type
      array of object
      Description

      Array of all tables available in the image.

POST/ocr/v1/general-document

Read General Document

Detects a valid General Document image and returns the information as text.

Required parameter

  • Name
    image
    Type
    file (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .tiff, .pdf)
    Description

    The image file for the General Document.

Optional parameter

  • Name
    table
    Type
    boolean
    Description

    (By default) if not set or set to false, the OCR will not return table data. If set to true, it will return OCR results for tables.

Sample Request

POST
/ocr/v1/general-document

    
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import { Vision } from '@glair/vision';

const vision = new Vision({ apiKey: 'api-key', username: 'username', password: 'password' });

await vision.ocr.generalDocument({ image: '/path/to/image/General-Document.jpg' });

Sample Response


    
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{
  "status": "SUCCESS",
  "reason": "File Successfully Read",
  "read": {
    "all_texts": [
      {
        "value": "THE QUICK BROWN FOX",
        "page_index": 0,
        "polygon": [[209, 17],[640, 14],[640, 44],[209, 47]],
        "confidence": 95,
        "confidence_text": 95
      },
      {
        "value": "JUMPS OVER THE LAZY FOG",
        "page_index": 0,
        "polygon": [[241, 63],[602, 62],[602, 84],[242, 86]],
        "confidence": 95,
        "confidence_text": 95
      },
      ...
    ],
    "tables": [
      {
        "page_index": 0,
        "row_count": 8,
        "column_count": 5,
        "polygon": [[60, 204], [454, 204], [453, 370], [60, 370]]
        "cells": [
          {
            "row_index": 0,
            "column_index": 0,
            "row_span": 2,
            "column_span": 1,
            "is_header": false,
            "is_projected_row_header": false,
            "value": "ABC",
            "polygon": [[68, 246], [111, 246], [111, 276], [68, 276]],
            "confidence": 97.6,
            "confidence_text": 97.6
          },
          {
            "row_index": 1,
            "column_index": 1,
            "row_span": 1,
            "column_span": 1,
            "is_header": false,
            "is_projected_row_header": false,
            "value": "CDE",
            "polygon": [[198, 276], [242, 276], [242, 307], [198, 307]],
            "confidence": 97.6,
            "confidence_text": 97.6
          }
        ]
      },
      ...
    ]
  }
}

Request ID

An associated request identifier is generated for every request made to this endpoint. This value can be found in the response headers under Request-Id

Responses

Various responses for this endpoint, in addition to general responses specified in Errors.

200 - OK

Request with readable General Document image

Response


    
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{
  "status": "SUCCESS",
  "reason": "File Successfully Read",
  //...,
}

400 - Bad Request

Request without form-data image

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{
  "status": "NO_FILE",
  "reason": "No file in request body",
  //...,
}

415 - Unsupported Media Type

Request with non-image file format

Response


    
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{
  "status": "FILE_INVALID_FORMAT",
  "reason": "Failed to process invalid file format. Please upload the correct file format",
  //...,
}