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Glossary

Overview of commonly used words and terminology
Term
Synonyms
Description
Entity
Field, entity type
An entity is a piece of information to be extracted from a document. Entities can have properties like required or maximum unique occurrences.
Value
Annotation, label, entity value
A specific instance of an entity like an annotation or a prediction. E.g. 2022-02-13 is a value of entity Document date
Annotating
Labeling
The process of marking or highlighting values of entities in a specific document.
Document
In Metamaze, a document is a logical set of pages that is assigned exactly one document type. E-mails are treated as documents as well.
Upload
Batch
An upload is a logical set of one or more files to be treated together.
Text entity
Entity consisting of text that is recognised on the document.​
Image entity
Object detection
Any entity to be recognised that is not text. For example: signatures, handwriting, stamps, logo’s, …
Composite entity
Entity group
A group of entities that belong together. For example: address consisting of street, number, city, … or an order line consisting of item description, item amount, item price, total price, …
Page management
The process of merging and splitting individual pages and files into one or more document(s).
Parsing
Standardising raw input values into a structured format. For example standardising a date like “April 24th, 2020” to “2020-04-24”. Applies to dates, numeric values, currencies, …​
OCR
Optical Character Recognition is the process of converting scanned images to actual text.