Data Instance

A Data Instance represents a segment of text content within a document.

Remarks

Data Instances can represent anything from a single character to the entire content of a document. Data Instance objects are the input to and the output from all ESP™ extraction operations, and also represent the format in which document metadata is stored by the Extract activity.

Data Instances are created during the extraction process, when the raw OCR data for a Batch Folder object is loaded, forming a Document Instance which represents the entire content of the document. When Extraction is performed, this root instance becomes the source from which all data elements at the root of the Data Model will perform their extraction, and the extracted results will be saved as children of the Document Instance.

List of Data Instance Types

Name	Description
Document Instance	Represents the entire content of a document, and serves as the root of the Data Instance hierarchies generated by the Extract activity.
Field Class Instance	Represent a DataInstance captured by a Field Class.
Field Instance	Represents the value of a Data Field object.
Section Instance	Represents the value of a Data Section object.
Section Instance Collection	Represents the value of a Data Section object.
Table Cell Instance	Represents the value of a table cell.
Table Instance	Represents an instance of a Data Table object on a document.
Table Row Instance	Represents a table row in a Table Instance.
Text Line Instance	Represents a line of text.

Properties

The following 9 properties are defined.