2.90:Data Section (Node Type)

Data Sections are a Data Element of a Data Model. Data Sections allow a document's content to be subdivided into smaller portions (or "sections") for further processing, yielding the extraction process higher efficiency and accuracy.

Often, they are used to extract repeating sections of a document. For example, if a document had several sections of data for different customers, a Data Section could be used to pull data for each customer. This is especially useful for situations where the data within the section is predictable, but the number of sections in the document is not (i.e. if one document has one customer's data listed but the next has five, the next has two, and so on and so on).

Data Sections can also be used to:

• Organize data from complex documents
• Make a hierarchical representation of a document's structure, or
• Reorder content from multiple columns on a page.

Data Sections may have, as its children:

• Data Fields
• Data Tables
• Their own Data Sections