🔖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.