document-extraction

Document Extraction (ADE)

Overview

LandingAI's Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) is a document processing SaaS that parses, extracts, and classifies documents without requiring templates or training. It provides three main capabilities:

1. Parse: Convert documents into structured Markdown with hierarchical JSON representation
2. Extract: Pull specific structured data using JSON schemas or Pydantic models
3. Split: Classify and separate multi-document batches by type

Key Benefits:

• No ML training or templates required
• Layout-agnostic parsing (works with any document structure)
• Supports 20+ file formats (PDF, images, spreadsheets, presentations)
• Precise visual grounding (bounding boxes, page numbers)
• Multiple models optimized for different document types

Quick Start

1. Installation

Never install packages globally without user approval. Always check for a local Python environment first.

1. .venv/bin/python       — uv-managed (this project)
2. venv/bin/python        — standard Python venv
3. uv run python          — if pyproject.toml exists
4. poetry run python      — if poetry.lock exists
5. python3                — system fallback; warn the user

Use the local environment to install: landingai-ade, python-dotenv

2. API Key Setup

The user may have already setup a .env file in the same directory as the document-extraction skill with the API key. You MUST check this path first (ls -la .*/skills/document-extraction/.env). Also try checking on the same directory as this SKILL.md file.

If not, provide instructions to create one. The script below will search for .env in common locations and load it.

.venv/bin/python - << 'EOF'
import os
from pathlib import Path
from dotenv import load_dotenv

# Load API key: prefer existing env var, then .env file lookup
if os.environ.get("VISION_AGENT_API_KEY"):
    print("API key found in existing environment variable")
else:
    def _find_env():
        for d in [Path.cwd().resolve(), *Path.cwd().resolve().parents]:
            for candidate in [
                # ADD the directory where the document-extraction skill is located
                d / '.env',
                d / 'document-extraction/.env',
                d / 'skills/document-extraction/.env',
            ]:
                if candidate.is_file():
                    return candidate
        return None
    env = _find_env()
    if env:
        load_dotenv(env)
        print(f"API key loaded from: {env}")
    else:
        print("Warning: VISION_AGENT_API_KEY not set and no .env found")
EOF