We’re pleased to share insight of upcoming GroupDocs.Parser Cloud API, a new addition to groupdocs.cloud product list. GroupDocs.Parser Cloud is a document parsing solution. As a developer, you’ll be able to add document parsing feature in your applications on any platform without depending on any third-party plugin or tool. The main feature of this REST API will be to parse documents on user-defined templates to extract data from your invoices, quotation or other kinds of business documents.
Some of the supported features in upcoming API are as following. The REST API will not be limited to the following features, but we will be keep adding new useful features.
Features
- Parse Document by Template
- Extract Text
- Extract only text
- Extract formatted text using extraction mode option; Plain Text, HTML and Markdown
- Extract text from specific pages by setting the page range
- Extract Images
- Document information extraction
- Template Management
Supported formats
In the first release of GroupDocs.Parser Cloud API, we will be supporting the following file formats:
| DOC | Microsoft Word Document |
| DOT | Microsoft Word Document Template |
| DOCX | Office Open XML Document |
| DOCM | Office Open XML Macro-Enabled Document |
| DOTX | Office Open XML Document Template |
| DOTM | Office Open XML Document Macro-Enabled Template |
| TXT | Plain text |
| ODT | Open Document Text |
| OTT | Open Document Text Template |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| Portable Document Format File | |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language File |
| XHTML | Extensible Hypertext Markup Language File |
| MHTML | MIME HTML File |
| MD | Markdown |
| XML | XML File |
| CHM | Compiled HTML Help File |
| EPUB | Digital E-Book File Format |
| FB2 | FictionBook 2.0 File |
| XLS | Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet |
| XLT | Microsoft Excel Template |
| XLSX | Office Open XML Spreadsheet |
| XLSM | Office Open XML Macro-Enabled Spreadsheet |
| XLSB | Office Open XML Binary Spreadsheet |
| XLTX | Office Open XML Spreadsheet Template |
| XLTM | Office Open XML Macro-Enabled Spreadsheet Template |
| ODS | Open Document Spreadsheet |
| OTS | Open Document Spreadsheet Template |
| CSV | Comma Separated Values |
| XLA | Excel Add-In File |
| XLAM | Excel Open XML Macro-Enabled Add-In |
| NUMBERS | Apple iWork Numbers |
| PPT | PowerPoint Presentation |
| PPS | PowerPoint Slideshow |
| POT | PowerPoint Template |
| PPTX | Office Open XML Presentation |
| PPTM | Office Open XML Macro-Enabled Presentation |
| POTX | Office Open XML Presentation Template |
| POTM | Office Open XML Macro-Enabled Presentation Template |
| PPSX | Office Open XML Presentation Slideshow |
| PPSM | Office Open XML Macro-Enabled Presentation Slideshow |
| ODP | Open Document Presentation |
| OTP | Open Document Presentation Template |
| PST | Outlook Personal Information Store File |
| OST | Outlook Offline Data File |
| EML | E-Mail Message |
| EMLX | Apple Mail Message |
| MSG | Outlook Mail Message |
| ONE | OneNote Document |
| ZIP | Zipped File |
Security and Authentication
The GroupDocs.Parser Cloud REST API is secured and requires authentication. You will need AppSID and AppKey for authentication, which can be created at the dashboard.
API Explorer
We will provide a Web-based API Reference Explorer for GroupDocs.Parser Cloud. So you will be able to try the REST APIs right away in your browser. And also you can get information about all the resources in the API.
SDKs
GroupDocs.Parser Cloud will come with SDKs for all popular programing languages hosted on our GitHub repository along with working examples, that will allow you to integrate it into existing systems. The SDKs will be wrapped around REST API. The SDK will take care of low-level details of making requests and handling responses, that will let you focus on writing code specific to your particular project.
Our first version
We are currently finalizing the documentation and examples for GroupDocs.Parser Cloud. We have planned to release the first version of new product soon with features shared above. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to write us on groupdocs.cloud Forum.
Please stay tuned to groupdocs.cloud blog for further updates.
