Information about each word or line of text in the input document.
For additional information, see Block in the Amazon Textract API reference.
Type: objectProperties: 6
Machine-LearningNatural Language ProcessingNLPText Analysis
Block is a JSON Structure definition published by Amazon Comprehend, describing 6 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.
{
"$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-comprehend/refs/heads/main/json-structure/openapi.yml-block-structure.json",
"name": "Block",
"description": "<p>Information about each word or line of text in the input document.</p> <p>For additional information, see <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/textract/latest/dg/API_Block.html\">Block</a> in the Amazon Textract API reference.</p>",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"Id": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/String"
},
{
"description": "Unique identifier for the block."
}
]
},
"BlockType": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/BlockType"
},
{
"description": "<p>The block represents a line of text or one word of text.</p> <ul> <li> <p>WORD - A word that's detected on a document page. A word is one or more ISO basic Latin script characters that aren't separated by spaces.</p> </li> <li> <p>LINE - A string of tab-delimited, contiguous words that are detected on a document page</p> </li> </ul>"
}
]
},
"Text": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/String"
},
{
"description": "The word or line of text extracted from the block."
}
]
},
"Page": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/Integer"
},
{
"description": "Page number where the block appears."
}
]
},
"Geometry": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/Geometry"
},
{
"description": "Co-ordinates of the rectangle or polygon that contains the text."
}
]
},
"Relationships": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ListOfRelationships"
},
{
"description": "A list of child blocks of the current block. For example, a LINE object has child blocks for each WORD block that's part of the line of text. "
}
]
}
}
}
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