Fingerprint mode

Fingerprints test for matching text in a document to determine:

the document's subtype for standalone files
the document's page range in multi-document, or "portfolio", files.

The Fingerprint Mode configuration option applies to scenario 1, not scenario 2. You can configure this option in the Sensible app in the document type settings tab.

Standalone files

Fingerprints improve performance by testing for matching text in a single document before running or skipping a config in a specified document type.

The Fingerprint Mode configuration option determines the strictness of the tests as follows:

Are fingerprinted configs present in doctype?	Fingerprint test results	Normal mode	Strict mode
yes	One or more fingerprinted configs passes. A config passes if 50% or more of tests in a config match text in document.	- Run extractions for all fingerprinted configs that pass - Skip extractions for non-fingerprinted configs if present in document type	Same
yes	All fingerprinted configs fail	- If non-fingerprinted configs are present, run all non-fingerprinted configs and skip fingerprinted configs - If all configs are fingerprinted, run all configs	400 error
no	N/A	Run all configs	400 error

After Sensible runs and skips extractions, it returns the extraction that ran with the highest-scoring config. Sensible calculates the score as follows: score = num of non-null fields - penalties for validation errors or warnings, where penalties are as follows:

validation error penalty = 1 * num fields with validation errors
validation warning penalty = 0.5 * num of fields with validation warnings

Portfolio files

Sensible ignores the document type's Fingerprint Mode setting for portfolio files.