Document AI API

What is a Document AI API?

A Document AI API is a programmatic interface that exposes AI-powered document processing capabilities as services that developers can call from their own applications and workflows. These capabilities include:

• Document Classification
• Data extraction
• Validation
• Optical character recognition (OCR)

Rather than building, training, and maintaining Document AI models in-house, developers integrate via API to process documents and receive structured, machine-readable output (typically JSON) that can be passed directly to downstream systems.

Core capabilities

Document AI APIs typically provide:

• Access to pre-trained models for common document types
• Support for custom model training on organization-specific documents
• Endpoints for core intelligent document processing (IDP) pipeline steps: document intake, classification, field extraction, table recognition, and confidence scoring

Integration and use cases

Flexible integration

REST-based Document AI APIs can be integrated into any application stack, making them accessible to development teams regardless of their existing technology environment.

Common use cases

Organizations commonly use Document AI APIs to add document intelligence to:

• ERP systems
• RPA workflows
• CRM platforms
• AI agents and AI-powered automation workflows
• Custom line-of-business applications