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Parse Examples

Runnable example tutorials demonstrating Parse for common document workflows — first parse, chart extraction, financial table extraction, custom prompts, batch processing, spreadsheets, and TypeScript/Node.js integration.

A collection of runnable tutorials for the most common Parse workflows. Each one walks through a real document end-to-end and shows the SDK calls in context. Most tutorials are Python notebooks (Jupyter, Colab); the TypeScript tutorial shows the same patterns from Node.js. If you’re new to Parse, the Getting Started page will give you the bare-bones first parse in 60 seconds.

Start here

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Quick Start: Parse a PDF & Interpret Outputs Python · Parse a real US Treasury financial report and interpret the four most common output views — text, markdown, items, and metadata. The best place to start if you're new to the Parse SDK.
Parse a PDF in TypeScript TypeScript · Parse a PDF from a Node.js script — install, set the API key, run the parse, walk the markdown output, and save it to disk. The TypeScript counterpart to the Python Quick Start.

By use case

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Structured extraction

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Parse a Financial Report and Extract Every Table Walk every page of a real Treasury financial report, pull every table out into pandas DataFrames with source-page provenance, and turn on Cost Optimizer to keep costs down on long mixed-complexity documents.
Parse Embedded Charts and Analyze with Pandas Use specialized chart parsing to extract chart data from a financial report, then load the resulting tables into pandas for summaries, plots, and value counts.
Parse and Analyze Excel Spreadsheets Parse a multi-sheet XLSX template and (optionally) build a small RAG app over the rows with the LlamaIndex framework.

Prompt engineering

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Parse with Additional Prompts Steer Parse with a custom prompt to focus on the parts of a document you care about. Walks through extracting just the prices from a McDonald's receipt.

Bulk processing

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Parse All PDFs in a Folder (Async) Batch-parse every PDF in a directory with controlled concurrency using asyncio and a semaphore. The pattern to use when you have hundreds or thousands of files.

More resources

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