Where does the extraction/parsing occur? Local or Cloud?

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Hi. I would like to try the PDF extraction API. My issue is ITAR rated/classified documents.

Question 1: Does the extraction takes place on Adobe Cloud , which (to my knowledge) would violate ITAR,

or is the extraction happening locally through the SDK?

I'd love to see if Adobe PDF Extractor performs better than batch Importing pdfs into MS Word, which happens locally.

For me, performace is better extraction of complex tables and text

Question 2: Does the desktop local version of Adobe Acrobat Pro use the same Sensei technology?

Many thanks in advance

Joel Geraci · Accepted Answer

Acrobat Pro does not export PDF to JSON. The Extract API doesn't exactly export the PDF to JSON either. It's more like a JSON representation of the PDF content without trying to be an export of it. The AI that drives Extract is part of Sensei.

Both the Acrobat Pro version and the API version of Export to Office formats use the same converters, not Sensei.

Joel Geraci · Answer

1) All of the PDF Services APIs run in the cloud.2) Yes and no. Sensei has a lot of parts. Some features of Acrobat Pro are enabled by the cloud, some run locally.

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