Data Type

Defines the type of data this extractor will capture. Can be one of the following values:

• Boolean - Represents a Boolean (true or false) value.
• DateTime - Represents an instant in time, typically expressed as a date and/or time of day.
• Decimal - Represents a decimal value.
• Double - Represents a 64-bit floating point value.
• GUID - Represents a globally unique identifier (GUID).
• Int16 - Represents a 16-bit integer value.
• Int32 - Represents a 32-bit integer value.
• Int64 - Represents a 64-bit integer value.
• String - String values can store any type of text information.
• URL - A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a string of characters used to identify a web resource, such as a web page on an HTTP server, or a file on an FTP server.

Defines a list of cultures supported by this extractor. If this value is empty, the extractor will execute against all documents. Otherwise, the extractor will only execute on documents which map to one of the specified cultures.

Generic property allowing an administrator to document the purpose of this Grooper Node.

Defines an internal Data Pattern which can be used in place of a child Data Format or Data Type. This property is useful for simple extractions where only one format needs to be defined.

Defines an optional list of external extractors to be executed. At runtime, referenced extractors execute after the internal pattern and the direct children have been executed.

An optional extractor to be used for transforming input prior to extraction. Input filters are used to select a subset of the source content prior to running the extractors. In many cases extraction logic can be simplified if scope is limited to a small portion of the document. When an input filter is specified, it is executed against the source. The Data Type's extractors are then executed on each instance returned by the input filter.

An optional extractor to be used for filtering undesirable results from the result set. Any output instances which overlap with an exclusion instance will be discarded.

An optional extractor to be used for removing content from output values. If an extractor is specified, it will be executed against each final output value. Any content which matches the extractor will be removed from the output value. If the resulting output value is empty or contains only whitespace characters, the entire output value will be discarded.

The extractor specified here MUST be match a contiguous sequence of characters within the text flow. As such, the extractor cannot use any Collation Provider Methods which combine instances geometrically.

Defines how instances from individual extractors are transformed into the final output. Can be one of the following values:

• Array - Matches a list of values arranged in horizontal, vertical, or flow order.
• Combine - Combines instances from child extractors based on the grouping specified in the Group By property.
• Individual - Combines the individual results from all extractors into a single result set.
• Key-Value List - Matches cases where a key and a list of 1 or more values occur on the document in a specific layout
• Key-Value Pair - Matches cases where a key-value pair occur on the document in a specific layout.
• Multi-Column - Output a single instance where the document has been reformatted to reflect the flow of a multi-column document.
• Ordered Array - Finds sequences of values where one result is present for each extractor, in the order in which they appear.
• Pattern-Based - Uses a regular expression to select a sequence of child extractor results.
• Split - Splits the input at each match found by an extractor.

Controls the output order of the result set. Can be one of the following values:

• Position - Results are ordered by their position within the content flow.
• Frequency - Results are ordered by the number of occurrences of each distinct value.
• Confidence - Results are ordered by confidence.
• Extractor - Results are ordered by the extractor which produced each match. Can be used to prioritize the results from one extractor those of over another.
• Length - Results are ordered by the length of the value.
• Value - Results are ordered by value.

Controls the output order of the result set. Can be one of the following values:

• Ascending - Results are returned in ascending order, where smaller values appear before larger values.
• Descending - Results are returned in descending order, where larger values appear before smaller values.

Specifies options for filtering output instances.

Specifies optional processing for each output instance.

Specifies an optional post-processing operation to the applied to each output instance. Can be one of the following values:

• OCR Reader - Extracts text from a region near each output instance.
• OMR Reader - Treats each extractor result as the label for an OMR zone, and attempts to detect and read the associated checkboxes.
• Place Zone - Places a zone relative to the output instance.

If True, instances with overlapping zones will be de-duplicated, with precedence given to larger data elements.

If True, duplicate values will be eliminated, leaving only the first instance of the value.