API tutorial
Get started with extracting structured data from documents using the Sensible API.
If you're new to APIs in general, these tutorials are a good starting point.
Or, if you're familiar with APIs:
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see the quickstart to get a sample API response.
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explore the Sensible Postman collection:
Prerequisites
To follow these tutorials, you need:
- An API key. You receive this key when you sign up for a Sensible account.
- Postman desktop app, or a command line with cURL installed.
- An example extraction configuration. See the following section.
Prerequisite: Create example extraction configuration
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Navigate to Sensible's open-source configuration library to choose an example document type. For this tutorial, select Tax forms.
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Select Clone to account to copy example tax forms and associated configurations for extracting data from those forms to your account.
Next steps
Try out the endpoints with these tutorials:
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