Working with Documents

The document resource is the foundation of the API. In order to process your documents (PDFs, TIFFs etc.), you will:

1. Create a new document resource from the contents of your document
2. OCR, classify, extract data from, or redact the document using the appropriate endpoints and the document's ID.
3. Delete the document resource

There are two different endpoints you can use to create a document resource from the contents of your document:

• The Create document (upload) endpoint accepts the contents of the document in the request body.
• The Create document (import) endpoint accepts a URL from which the document contents are downloaded.

Your API client has a maximum number of document resources that can exist at any time. This number is deliberately kept low to encourage you to keep your documents within the service for as short a time as possible.