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GroupDocs.Parser is a feature-rich document data parsing API. Here you may find description of the most important features.

GroupDocs.Parser allows to parse documents by user-defined templates.

It is easy to create a template with data field definitions and table definitions. Then it’s easy to use the template (just pass the Template object to parse_by_template method) and extract data such as prices, invoices, tables from your typical documents.

GroupDocs.Parser provides several text extraction methods that cover various text retrieval scenarios.

• Extract plain text from any of the supported documents
• Extract HTML or Markdown formatted text for a fast preview
• Extract structured text
• Extract text areas with coordinates, text style and other info
• Search text by a keyword or regular expression; get text around the found word

Below different text extraction aspects are described:

One of the most demanded features is accurate text extraction. GroupDocs.Parser allows to easily implement it using simple get_text method.

GroupDocs.Parser provides a way to increase text extraction performance with Raw text extraction mode for some formats. The text doesn’t look so accurate, but performance is higher.

This feature is useful in those text extraction scenarios when text quality may not be the best, but performance is critical.

In addition to standard text extraction modes, GroupDocs.Parser API provides a method get_formatted_text to extract formatted text for those cases when simple plain text is not enough and you may need to keep formatting like text style, table layout etc.

At this moment the following formats are supported:

• Plain Text
• Markdown
• HTML

With Plain Text mode GroupDocs.Parser performs formatting in plain text making extracted text look closer to original. This is achieved due to special text positioning, box-drawing characters etc.

This mode is useful when you need to export the extracted text to any system that supports Markdown-formatted text.

At this moment the following formatting are supported:

• Bold text
• Italic text
• Hyperlinks
• Headings
• Numbering and bullets lists
• Tables

GroupDocs.Parser also supports HTML formatting.

Following HTML tags are now supported when extracting text with this formatting mode:

Many document formats do not contain only text. Usually, the text is organized into paragraphs divided into parts with headers. Also, the text can contain hyperlinks, lists, tables. For this scenario, GroupDocs.Parser provides structured text extraction with the ability to extract text with its structure. This feature is easy to use - you simply call get_structure method that returns XML with structured text.

GroupDocs.Parser provides API that allows to extract text areas with coordinates and text style.

This feature allows to implement advanced scenarios related to text analytics in your applications. Just call get_text_areas method and you will get all text area objects.

GroupDocs.Parser allows to perform search over loaded document using keywords or regular expressions. Use the search method and then loop through the collection of search results.

GroupDocs.Parser provides API that allows to extract metadata from supported document formats with simple get_metadata method call.

GroupDocs.Parser supports image extraction from documents. You may call get_images method that returns all info about document images and allows to save them.

GroupDocs.Parser allows to extract tables from documents preserving their structure. You can use get_tables method to extract tables from the entire document or specific pages.

GroupDocs.Parser allows to extract data (text, images, other supported extraction methods) from formats that contain other documents like ZIP archives, PDF portfolios, emails, OST containers.

You can simply call get_container method and work with extracted attached or archived documents as with usual document files.

GroupDocs.Parser provides the ability to get basic document information such as file type, page count, and size. This can be done using the get_document_info method.

GroupDocs.Parser allows to extract table of contents from some document formats. To do it, you may call get_toc method.