This REST API allows extracting document’s fields and tables defined in a template file saved in user storage and specified by template path.
The following example demonstrates how to extract data from a source document by a saved template. Here you can see how to parse text fields by regular expressions and a table inside the document.
# First get JSON Web Token# Please get your Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud/applications.# Kindly place Client Id in "client_id" and Client Secret in "client_secret" argument.curl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/connect/token"\
-X POST \
-d "grant_type#client_credentials&client_id#xxxx&client_secret#xxxx"\
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"\
-H "Accept: application/json"# cURL example to join several documents into onecurl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1.0/parser/parse"\
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"\
-H "Accept: application/json"\
-H "Authorization: Bearer
<jwt token>"\
-d "{
"FileInfo": {
"FilePath": "words\docx\template-document.docx",
"TemplatePath": "templates\template-for-companies.json"
}
}"
{"count":5,"fieldsData":[{"name":"ADDRESS","pageIndex":0,"pageArea":{"rectangle":{"position":{"x":85.050003051757813,"y":79.191001892089844},"size":{"height":13.428000450134277,"width":82.430992126464844},"coordinates":{"top":79.191001892089844,"bottom":92.619002342224121,"left":85.050003051757813,"right":167.48099517822266}},"page":{"index":0,"size":{"height":841.9000244140625,"width":595.29998779296875}},"pageTextArea":{"text":"Company address:","baseLine":92.619002342224121,"areas":[]}}},{"name":"COMPANYADDRESS","pageIndex":0,"pageArea":{"rectangle":{"position":{"x":169.96800231933594,"y":79.191001892089844},"size":{"height":13.428000450134277,"width":98.3180046081543},"coordinates":{"top":79.191001892089844,"bottom":92.619002342224121,"left":169.96800231933594,"right":268.28600692749023}},"page":{"index":0,"size":{"height":841.9000244140625,"width":595.29998779296875}},"pageTextArea":{"text":"address of the Aspose","baseLine":92.619002342224121,"areas":[{"text":"address","baseLine":92.619002342224121,"areas":[]},{"text":"of","baseLine":92.619002342224121,"areas":[]},{"text":"the","baseLine":92.619002342224121,"areas":[]},{"text":"Aspose","baseLine":92.619002342224121,"areas":[]}]}},"linkedField":{"name":"ADDRESS","pageIndex":0,"pageArea":{"rectangle":{"position":{"x":85.050003051757813,"y":79.191001892089844},"size":{"height":13.428000450134277,"width":82.430992126464844},"coordinates":{"top":79.191001892089844,"bottom":92.619002342224121,"left":85.050003051757813,"right":167.48099517822266}},"page":{"index":0,"size":{"height":841.9000244140625,"width":595.29998779296875}},"pageTextArea":{"text":"Company address:","baseLine":92.619002342224121,"areas":[]}}}},{"name":"COMPANY","pageIndex":0,"pageArea":{"rectangle":{"position":{"x":85.050003051757813,"y":56.700000762939453},"size":{"height":13.428000450134277,"width":72.998994827270508},"coordinates":{"top":56.700000762939453,"bottom":70.12800121307373,"left":85.050003051757813,"right":158.04899787902832}},"page":{"index":0,"size":{"height":841.9000244140625,"width":595.29998779296875}},"pageTextArea":{"text":"Company name:","baseLine":70.12800121307373,"areas":[]}}},{"name":"COMPANYNAME","pageIndex":0,"pageArea":{"rectangle":{"position":{"x":160.53599548339844,"y":56.700000762939453},"size":{"height":13.428000450134277,"width":32.021999359130859},"coordinates":{"top":56.700000762939453,"bottom":70.12800121307373,"left":160.53599548339844,"right":192.5579948425293}},"page":{"index":0,"size":{"height":841.9000244140625,"width":595.29998779296875}},"pageTextArea":{"text":"Aspose","baseLine":70.12800121307373,"areas":[{"text":"Aspose","baseLine":70.12800121307373,"areas":[]}]}},"linkedField":{"name":"COMPANY","pageIndex":0,"pageArea":{"rectangle":{"position":{"x":85.050003051757813,"y":56.700000762939453},"size":{"height":13.428000450134277,"width":72.998994827270508},"coordinates":{"top":56.700000762939453,"bottom":70.12800121307373,"left":85.050003051757813,"right":158.04899787902832}},"page":{"index":0,"size":{"height":841.9000244140625,"width":595.29998779296875}},"pageTextArea":{"text":"Company name:","baseLine":70.12800121307373,"areas":[]}}}},{"name":"COMPANIES","pageIndex":0,"pageArea":{"rectangle":{"position":{"x":90.699996948242188,"y":124.67299652099609},"size":{"height":27.356001853942871,"width":331.91801071166992},"coordinates":{"top":124.67299652099609,"bottom":152.02899837493896,"left":90.699996948242188,"right":422.61800765991211}},"page":{"index":0,"size":{"height":841.9000244140625,"width":595.29998779296875}},"pageTableArea":{"rowCount":1,"columnCount":2,"pageTableAreaCells":[{"columnIndex":0,"columnSpan":1,"pageArea":{"rectangle":{"position":{"x":90.699996948242188,"y":124.67299652099609},"size":{"height":27.356001853942871,"width":32.021999359130859},"coordinates":{"top":124.67299652099609,"bottom":152.02899837493896,"left":90.699996948242188,"right":122.72199630737305}},"page":{"index":0,"size":{"height":841.9000244140625,"width":595.29998779296875}},"pageTextArea":{"text":"Name\r\nAspose","baseLine":152.02899837493896,"areas":[{"text":"Name","baseLine":138.10099697113037,"areas":[]},{"text":"Aspose","baseLine":152.02899837493896,"areas":[]}]}},"rowIndex":0,"rowSpan":1},{"columnIndex":1,"columnSpan":1,"pageArea":{"rectangle":{"position":{"x":324.29998779296875,"y":124.67299652099609},"size":{"height":27.356001853942871,"width":98.318019866943359},"coordinates":{"top":124.67299652099609,"bottom":152.02899837493896,"left":324.29998779296875,"right":422.61800765991211}},"page":{"index":0,"size":{"height":841.9000244140625,"width":595.29998779296875}},"pageTextArea":{"text":"Address\r\naddress of the Aspose","baseLine":152.02899837493896,"areas":[{"text":"Address","baseLine":138.10099697113037,"areas":[]},{"text":"address","baseLine":152.02899837493896,"areas":[]},{"text":"of","baseLine":152.02899837493896,"areas":[]},{"text":"the","baseLine":152.02899837493896,"areas":[]},{"text":"Aspose","baseLine":152.02899837493896,"areas":[]}]}},"rowIndex":0,"rowSpan":1}]}}}]}
SDK examples
Our API is completely independent of your operating system, database system or development language. You can use any language and platform that supports HTTP to interact with our API. However, manually writing client code can be difficult, error-prone and time-consuming. Therefore, we have provided and support API SDKs in many development languages in order to make it easier to integrate with us. If you use SDK, it hides the Parser API calls and lets you use GroupDocs Cloud features in a native way for your preferred language.
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