Document AI Toolbox client libraries

This page shows how to get started with the Cloud Client Libraries for the Document AI Toolbox API. Client libraries make it easier to access Google Cloud APIs from a supported language. Although you can use Google Cloud APIs directly by making raw requests to the server, client libraries provide simplifications that significantly reduce the amount of code you need to write.

Read more about the Cloud Client Libraries and the older Google API Client Libraries in Client libraries explained.

Install the client library

Python

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-documentai-toolbox

For more information, see Setting Up a Python Development Environment.

Set up authentication

To authenticate calls to Google Cloud APIs, client libraries support Application Default Credentials (ADC); the libraries look for credentials in a set of defined locations and use those credentials to authenticate requests to the API. With ADC, you can make credentials available to your application in a variety of environments, such as local development or production, without needing to modify your application code.

For production environments, the way you set up ADC depends on the service and context. For more information, see Set up Application Default Credentials.

For a local development environment, you can set up ADC with the credentials that are associated with your Google Account:

  1. Install the Google Cloud CLI, then initialize it by running the following command: 

    gcloud init

  2. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account: 

    gcloud auth application-default login

    You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

    A sign-in screen appears. After you sign in, your credentials are stored in the local credential file used by ADC.

Use the client library

Document AI Toolbox is an SDK for Python that provides utility functions for managing, manipulating, and extracting information from the document response. It creates a "wrapped" document object from a processed document response from JSON files in Cloud Storage, local JSON files, or output directly from the process_document() method.

It can perform the following actions:

Code Samples

The following code samples demonstrate how to use Document AI Toolbox.

Quickstart

from typing import Optional

from google.cloud import documentai
from google.cloud.documentai_toolbox import document, gcs_utilities

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
# Given a Document JSON or sharded Document JSON in path gs://bucket/path/to/folder
# gcs_bucket_name = "bucket"
# gcs_prefix = "path/to/folder"

# Or, given a Document JSON in path gs://bucket/path/to/folder/document.json
# gcs_uri = "gs://bucket/path/to/folder/document.json"

# Or, given a Document JSON in path local/path/to/folder/document.json
# document_path = "local/path/to/folder/document.json"

# Or, given a Document object from Document AI
# documentai_document = documentai.Document()

# Or, given a BatchProcessMetadata object from Document AI
# operation = client.batch_process_documents(request)
# operation.result(timeout=timeout)
# batch_process_metadata = documentai.BatchProcessMetadata(operation.metadata)

# Or, given a BatchProcessOperation name from Document AI
# batch_process_operation = "projects/project_id/locations/location/operations/operation_id"


def quickstart_sample(
    gcs_bucket_name: Optional[str] = None,
    gcs_prefix: Optional[str] = None,
    gcs_uri: Optional[str] = None,
    document_path: Optional[str] = None,
    documentai_document: Optional[documentai.Document] = None,
    batch_process_metadata: Optional[documentai.BatchProcessMetadata] = None,
    batch_process_operation: Optional[str] = None,
) -> document.Document:
    if gcs_bucket_name and gcs_prefix:
        # Load from Google Cloud Storage Directory
        print("Document structure in Cloud Storage")
        gcs_utilities.print_gcs_document_tree(
            gcs_bucket_name=gcs_bucket_name, gcs_prefix=gcs_prefix
        )

        wrapped_document = document.Document.from_gcs(
            gcs_bucket_name=gcs_bucket_name, gcs_prefix=gcs_prefix
        )
    elif gcs_uri:
        # Load a single Document from a Google Cloud Storage URI
        wrapped_document = document.Document.from_gcs_uri(gcs_uri=gcs_uri)
    elif document_path:
        # Load from local `Document` JSON file
        wrapped_document = document.Document.from_document_path(document_path)
    elif documentai_document:
        # Load from `documentai.Document` object
        wrapped_document = document.Document.from_documentai_document(
            documentai_document
        )
    elif batch_process_metadata:
        # Load Documents from `BatchProcessMetadata` object
        wrapped_documents = document.Document.from_batch_process_metadata(
            metadata=batch_process_metadata
        )
        wrapped_document = wrapped_documents[0]
    elif batch_process_operation:
        wrapped_documents = document.Document.from_batch_process_operation(
            location="us", operation_name=batch_process_operation
        )
        wrapped_document = wrapped_documents[0]
    else:
        raise ValueError("No document source provided.")

    # For all properties and methods, refer to:
    # https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/documentai-toolbox/latest/google.cloud.documentai_toolbox.wrappers.document.Document

    print("Document Successfully Loaded!")
    print(f"\t Number of Pages: {len(wrapped_document.pages)}")
    print(f"\t Number of Entities: {len(wrapped_document.entities)}")

    for page in wrapped_document.pages:
        print(f"Page {page.page_number}")
        for block in page.blocks:
            print(block.text)
        for paragraph in page.paragraphs:
            print(paragraph.text)
        for line in page.lines:
            print(line.text)
        for token in page.tokens:
            print(token.text)

        # Only supported with Form Parser processor
        # https://cloud.google.com/document-ai/docs/form-parser
        for form_field in page.form_fields:
            print(f"{form_field.field_name} : {form_field.field_value}")

        # Only supported with Enterprise Document OCR version `pretrained-ocr-v2.0-2023-06-02`
        # https://cloud.google.com/document-ai/docs/process-documents-ocr#enable_symbols
        for symbol in page.symbols:
            print(symbol.text)

        # Only supported with Enterprise Document OCR version `pretrained-ocr-v2.0-2023-06-02`
        # https://cloud.google.com/document-ai/docs/process-documents-ocr#math_ocr
        for math_formula in page.math_formulas:
            print(math_formula.text)

    # Only supported with Entity Extraction processors
    # https://cloud.google.com/document-ai/docs/processors-list
    for entity in wrapped_document.entities:
        print(f"{entity.type_} : {entity.mention_text}")
        if entity.normalized_text:
            print(f"\tNormalized Text: {entity.normalized_text}")

    # Only supported with Layout Parser
    for chunk in wrapped_document.chunks:
        print(f"Chunk {chunk.chunk_id}: {chunk.content}")

    for block in wrapped_document.document_layout_blocks:
        print(f"Document Layout Block {block.block_id}")

        if block.text_block:
            print(f"{block.text_block.type_}: {block.text_block.text}")
        if block.list_block:
            print(f"{block.list_block.type_}: {block.list_block.list_entries}")
        if block.table_block:
            print(block.table_block.header_rows, block.table_block.body_rows)

Tables


from google.cloud.documentai_toolbox import document

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
# Given a local document.proto or sharded document.proto in path
# document_path = "path/to/local/document.json"
# output_file_prefix = "output/table"


def table_sample(document_path: str, output_file_prefix: str) -> None:
    wrapped_document = document.Document.from_document_path(document_path=document_path)

    print("Tables in Document")
    for page in wrapped_document.pages:
        for table_index, table in enumerate(page.tables):
            # Convert table to Pandas Dataframe
            # Refer to https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/frame.html for all supported methods
            df = table.to_dataframe()
            print(df)

            output_filename = f"{output_file_prefix}-{page.page_number}-{table_index}"

            # Write Dataframe to CSV file
            df.to_csv(f"{output_filename}.csv", index=False)

            # Write Dataframe to HTML file
            df.to_html(f"{output_filename}.html", index=False)

            # Write Dataframe to Markdown file
            df.to_markdown(f"{output_filename}.md", index=False)

BigQuery export


from google.cloud.documentai_toolbox import document

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
# Given a document.proto or sharded document.proto in path gs://bucket/path/to/folder
# gcs_bucket_name = "bucket"
# gcs_prefix = "path/to/folder"
# dataset_name = "test_dataset"
# table_name = "test_table"
# project_id = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID"


def entities_to_bigquery_sample(
    gcs_bucket_name: str,
    gcs_prefix: str,
    dataset_name: str,
    table_name: str,
    project_id: str,
) -> None:
    wrapped_document = document.Document.from_gcs(
        gcs_bucket_name=gcs_bucket_name, gcs_prefix=gcs_prefix
    )

    job = wrapped_document.entities_to_bigquery(
        dataset_name=dataset_name, table_name=table_name, project_id=project_id
    )

    # Also supported:
    # job = wrapped_document.form_fields_to_bigquery(
    #     dataset_name=dataset_name, table_name=table_name, project_id=project_id
    # )

    print("Document entities loaded into BigQuery")
    print(f"Job ID: {job.job_id}")
    print(f"Table: {job.destination.path}")

PDF split


from google.cloud.documentai_toolbox import document

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
# Given a local document.proto or sharded document.proto from a splitter/classifier in path
# document_path = "path/to/local/document.json"
# pdf_path = "path/to/local/document.pdf"
# output_path = "resources/output/"


def split_pdf_sample(document_path: str, pdf_path: str, output_path: str) -> None:
    wrapped_document = document.Document.from_document_path(document_path=document_path)

    output_files = wrapped_document.split_pdf(
        pdf_path=pdf_path, output_path=output_path
    )

    print("Document Successfully Split")
    for output_file in output_files:
        print(output_file)

Image extraction


from google.cloud.documentai_toolbox import document

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
# Given a local document.proto or sharded document.proto from an identity processor in path
# document_path = "path/to/local/document.json"
# output_path = "resources/output/"
# output_file_prefix = "exported_photo"
# output_file_extension = "png"


def export_images_sample(
    document_path: str,
    output_path: str,
    output_file_prefix: str,
    output_file_extension: str,
) -> None:
    wrapped_document = document.Document.from_document_path(document_path=document_path)

    output_files = wrapped_document.export_images(
        output_path=output_path,
        output_file_prefix=output_file_prefix,
        output_file_extension=output_file_extension,
    )
    print("Images Successfully Exported")
    for output_file in output_files:
        print(output_file)

Vision conversion


from google.cloud.documentai_toolbox import document

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
# Given a document.proto or sharded document.proto in path gs://bucket/path/to/folder
# gcs_bucket_name = "bucket"
# gcs_prefix = "path/to/folder"


def convert_document_to_vision_sample(
    gcs_bucket_name: str,
    gcs_prefix: str,
) -> None:
    wrapped_document = document.Document.from_gcs(
        gcs_bucket_name=gcs_bucket_name, gcs_prefix=gcs_prefix
    )

    # Converting wrapped_document to vision AnnotateFileResponse
    annotate_file_response = (
        wrapped_document.convert_document_to_annotate_file_response()
    )

    print("Document converted to AnnotateFileResponse!")
    print(
        f"Number of Pages : {len(annotate_file_response.responses[0].full_text_annotation.pages)}"
    )

hOCR conversion


from google.cloud.documentai_toolbox import document

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
# Given a document.proto or sharded document.proto in path gs://bucket/path/to/folder
# document_path = "path/to/local/document.json"
# document_title = "your-document-title"


def convert_document_to_hocr_sample(document_path: str, document_title: str) -> str:
    wrapped_document = document.Document.from_document_path(document_path=document_path)

    # Converting wrapped_document to hOCR format
    hocr_string = wrapped_document.export_hocr_str(title=document_title)

    print("Document converted to hOCR!")
    return hocr_string

Third-party conversion


from google.cloud.documentai_toolbox import converter

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
# This sample will convert external annotations to the Document.json format used by Document AI Workbench for training.
# To process this the external annotation must have these type of objects:
#       1) Type
#       2) Text
#       3) Bounding Box (bounding boxes must be 1 of the 3 optional types)
#
# This is the bare minimum requirement to convert the annotations but for better accuracy you will need to also have:
#       1) Document width & height
#
# Bounding Box Types:
#   Type 1:
#       bounding_box:[{"x":1,"y":2},{"x":2,"y":2},{"x":2,"y":3},{"x":1,"y":3}]
#   Type 2:
#       bounding_box:{ "Width": 1, "Height": 1, "Left": 1, "Top": 1}
#   Type 3:
#       bounding_box: [1,2,2,2,2,3,1,3]
#
#   Note: If these types are not sufficient you can propose a feature request or contribute the new type and conversion functionality.
#
# Given a folders in gcs_input_path with the following structure :
#
# gs://path/to/input/folder
#   ├──test_annotations.json
#   ├──test_config.json
#   └──test.pdf
#
# An example of the config is in sample-converter-configs/Azure/form-config.json
#
# location = "us",
# processor_id = "my_processor_id"
# gcs_input_path = "gs://path/to/input/folder"
# gcs_output_path = "gs://path/to/input/folder"


def convert_external_annotations_sample(
    location: str,
    processor_id: str,
    project_id: str,
    gcs_input_path: str,
    gcs_output_path: str,
) -> None:
    converter.convert_from_config(
        project_id=project_id,
        location=location,
        processor_id=processor_id,
        gcs_input_path=gcs_input_path,
        gcs_output_path=gcs_output_path,
    )

Document batches


from google.cloud import documentai
from google.cloud.documentai_toolbox import gcs_utilities

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
# Given unprocessed documents in path gs://bucket/path/to/folder
# gcs_bucket_name = "bucket"
# gcs_prefix = "path/to/folder"
# batch_size = 50


def create_batches_sample(
    gcs_bucket_name: str,
    gcs_prefix: str,
    batch_size: int = 50,
) -> None:
    # Creating batches of documents for processing
    batches = gcs_utilities.create_batches(
        gcs_bucket_name=gcs_bucket_name, gcs_prefix=gcs_prefix, batch_size=batch_size
    )

    print(f"{len(batches)} batch(es) created.")
    for batch in batches:
        print(f"{len(batch.gcs_documents.documents)} files in batch.")
        print(batch.gcs_documents.documents)

        # Use as input for batch_process_documents()
        # Refer to https://cloud.google.com/document-ai/docs/send-request
        # for how to send a batch processing request
        request = documentai.BatchProcessRequest(
            name="processor_name", input_documents=batch
        )
        print(request)

Merge Document shards


from google.cloud import documentai
from google.cloud.documentai_toolbox import document

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
# Given a document.proto or sharded document.proto in path gs://bucket/path/to/folder
# gcs_bucket_name = "bucket"
# gcs_prefix = "path/to/folder"
# output_file_name = "path/to/folder/file.json"


def merge_document_shards_sample(
    gcs_bucket_name: str, gcs_prefix: str, output_file_name: str
) -> None:
    wrapped_document = document.Document.from_gcs(
        gcs_bucket_name=gcs_bucket_name, gcs_prefix=gcs_prefix
    )

    merged_document = wrapped_document.to_merged_documentai_document()

    with open(output_file_name, "w") as f:
        f.write(documentai.Document.to_json(merged_document))

    print(f"Document with {len(wrapped_document.shards)} shards successfully merged.")

Additional resources

Python

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Python:

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