Zanran Scaffolder (Preview)
The Zanran Scaffolder extracts tables and text from PDF or image files. Tables are extracted as Excel or XML, text as XML. The Scaffolder is best for reports like financial statements, scientific papers, brokers reports... Initially, you can test your documents using the manual, anonymous, practice site: www.zanrandemoapi.com
This connector is available in the following products and regions:
| Service | Class | Regions |
|---|---|---|
| Logic Apps | Standard | All Logic Apps regions except the following: - Azure Government regions - Azure China regions - US Department of Defense (DoD) |
| Power Automate | Premium | All Power Automate regions except the following: - US Government (GCC) - US Government (GCC High) - China Cloud operated by 21Vianet - US Department of Defense (DoD) |
| Power Apps | Premium | All Power Apps regions except the following: - US Government (GCC) - US Government (GCC High) - China Cloud operated by 21Vianet - US Department of Defense (DoD) |
| Contact | |
|---|---|
| Name | Zanran contact |
| URL | https://pdf.zanran.com/contact-us |
| helpdesk@zanran.com |
| Connector Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Zanran Ltd |
| Website | http://www.zanran.com |
| Privacy policy | https://pdf.zanran.com/privacy-policy |
| Categories | Content and Files;Productivity |
The Zanran Scaffolder server provides a web API which enables users to automatically extract content from PDFs and images. It is designed primarily for extracting from reports (annual accounts, scientific papers, market reports, etc.) Zanran's Scaffolder engine automatically determines the structure and layout of these documents and extracts content into constituent parts: blocks of text (e.g. paragraphs); tables; and images/graphics. It uses Computer Vision and Machine Learning and outputs data in structured formats like Excel and XML. It is scalable and does not require any manual intervention or pre-defined templates, any training or configuration. The software is language agnostic and it is built for automation / RPA environments to process millions of files.
Prerequisites
This connector accesses a free service for low-volume extraction of text and tables from PDFs. Prerequisite: a user name (email address) and password (which you invent).
How to get credentials
Please register at: http://scaffolderlink.zanran.com/
Known issues and limitations
We recommend testing using 'native' PDFs, rather than scanned ones - to remove any effects of OCR.
Creating a connection
The connector supports the following authentication types:
| Default | Parameters for creating connection. | All regions | Not shareable |
Default
Applicable: All regions
Parameters for creating connection.
This is not shareable connection. If the power app is shared with another user, another user will be prompted to create new connection explicitly.
| Name | Type | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| username | securestring | The username for this api | True |
| password | securestring | The password for this api | True |
Throttling Limits
| Name | Calls | Renewal Period |
|---|---|---|
| API calls per connection | 100 | 60 seconds |
Actions
| Download results as a Znr file |
Downloads the results in the form of a Znr file which can then be viewed and edited by Pdf Workbench (a Zanran tool designed for this purpose) |
| Download results as Xlsx |
Downloads the results of the table analysis as an Excel (Xlsx) document with separate worksheets for each table. |
| Download results as Zipped up Xml files |
Downloads a zip file containing the analysis results in Xml format (one Xml file per page) |
| Get Status |
Get the status of the document being uploaded - i.e. whether it is in the queue to be processed, being processed or has finished processing |
| Upload Document |
Upload Document |
Download results as a Znr file
Downloads the results in the form of a Znr file which can then be viewed and edited by Pdf Workbench (a Zanran tool designed for this purpose)
Parameters
| Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Document name without extension
|
docname | True | string |
the original document filename without the extension |
Returns
- response
- file
Download results as Xlsx
Downloads the results of the table analysis as an Excel (Xlsx) document with separate worksheets for each table.
Parameters
| Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Document name without extension
|
docname | True | string |
the original document filename without the extension |
Returns
- response
- file
Download results as Zipped up Xml files
Downloads a zip file containing the analysis results in Xml format (one Xml file per page)
Parameters
| Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Document name without extension
|
docname | True | string |
the original document filename without the extension |
Returns
- response
- file
Get Status
Get the status of the document being uploaded - i.e. whether it is in the queue to be processed, being processed or has finished processing
Parameters
| Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Document name without extension
|
docname | True | string |
the original document file-name without the extension |
Returns
- response
- string
Upload Document
Upload Document
Parameters
| Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
file
|
file | True | file |
The document file to upload |
|
Start page
|
startPage | integer |
Start page if analysing only a range |
|
|
End page
|
endPage | integer |
End page if analysing only a range |
|
|
Coords
|
Coords | string |
Coordinates of table to analyse (for processing a single page.) NOTE: this is a specialized requirement; if you wish to use this parameter, please contact us at helpdesk@zanran.com to ask how to proceed |
Returns
- response
- string
Definitions
file
This is the basic data type 'file'.
string
This is the basic data type 'string'.