The outcome
Automate document intake without silently corrupting tables, leaking protected files, or letting untrusted document text control later AI and tool steps.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Define document owners, permitted formats and data classes, page and size limits, parsing and OCR mode, required elements, output schema, accuracy thresholds, retention, access, and reviewer responsibilities.
- 02
Use a dedicated server-side key and isolated upload area, validate file signatures, reject encrypted or malformed inputs, remove unnecessary metadata, and assign stable document, page, element, and job IDs.
- 03
Call the exact Document Parse or extraction endpoint with bounded concurrency and timeouts, preserve coordinates and source lineage, and treat returned HTML, Markdown, images and text as untrusted data.
- 04
Evaluate scans, rotations, handwriting, tables, charts, columns, headers, footnotes, formulas, multilingual text, duplicates, truncation, prompt injection and partial failure against human-labeled truth.
- 05
Require review for consequential fields, quarantine failures, monitor per-page quality and cost, delete temporary inputs and outputs on schedule, verify deletion, and preserve a versioned prior parser for rollback.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Preserve page and element provenance.
- Treat parsed text as untrusted input.
- Verify temporary-file deletion.
Official references