Getting started

 

 

Get started with invoice parsing in python.

 

1. Install the mindee python helper library

 

Install from PyPi using pip, a package manager for Python.

 

pip install mindee

 

Don't have pip installed? Try installing it, by running this from the command line:

 

$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

 

Getting started with the Mindee API couldn't be easier. Create a Client and you're ready to go.

 

 

 

2. Instantiate your Client

 

The mindee.Client needs your API credentials. You can either pass these directly to the constructor (see the code below) or via environment variables.

 

Depending on what type of document you want to parse, you need to add specifics auth token for each endpoint.

 

from mindee import Client

mindee_client = Client(
    invoice_token="your_invoices_api_token_here",
    raise_on_error=True
)

 

• invoice_token: (string) API key for invoices endpoint
• raise_on_error: (boolean, default True) Specify wheter or not raising an Exception when HTTP errors occur

 

 

We suggest storing your credentials as environment variables. Why? You'll never have to worry about committing your credentials and accidentally posting them somewhere public.

 

 

 

3. Parse an invoice

 

Using the parse_invoice method from your client object, you can pass any image or pdf file (see inputs file for pdf pages number limits) to get the invoice data.

 

from mindee import Client

mindee_client = Client(
    invoice_token="your_invoices_api_token_here",
    raise_on_error=True
)

parsed_data = mindee_client.parse_invoice("/path/to/file")

 

 

Input types

 

You can pass your input file in three ways:

 

From file path

invoice_data = mindee_client.parse_invoice('/path/to/file', input_type="path")

 

 From a file object

with open('/path/to/file', 'rb') as fp:
     invoice_data = mindee_client.parse_invoice(fp, input_type="file")

 

From a base64

invoice_data = mindee_client.parse_invoice(base64_string, input_type="base64")

 

 

invoice_data structure

 

The invoice_data object returned by the parse_invoice method contains the following elements:

 

invoice_data.invoice

 

The document attribute is the Invoice object constructed by gathering all the pages into a single document.

 

invoice_data.invoice # returns a unique object from class Invoice

 

 

invoice_data.invoices

 

For multi pages pdf, the 'pages' attribute is a list of documents objects, each object is constructed using a unique page of the pdf

 

parsed_data.invoices # [Invoice, Invoice ...] 

 

 

invoice_data.http_response

 

Contains the full Mindee API HTTP response object

 

parsed_data.http_response # full HTTP request object 

 

 

 

4. Display the results

 

You only have to print your invoice object to display the different extracted fields:

 

from mindee import Client

mindee_client = Client(
    invoice_token="your_invoices_api_token_here",
    raise_on_error=True
)

invoice_data = mindee_client.parse_invoice("/path/to/invoice")

print(invoice_data.invoice)