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  • Hi there

    I have only spend 30 min. on reading about Mindee, but I hope it is ok that I already ask questons now.

    On behalf of a client I need to find a tool that is strong on OCR reading complex line item scenarios. Our initial project is load of purchase orders and later will try with invoices and inventory documents. And if that turns out to be successful, we will probably find other scenarios. Our coding will be SAP ABAP.

    Questions:

    1) I have read the “Data Processing Agreement”, but I am a technician and as always I find the legal stuff to be written in gibberish.
    We would for sure start out with the Starter plan, but on the Organisation and Members page I can see that it is not possible to set the Default Processing Zone to Europe unless I have at least the PRO plan.
    My client is based in UK and EU and it is a requirement that no data leaves Europe. Is it guaranteed that no data leaves Europe?

    2) I guess ABAP programming is what you call manual integration and in documentation you say “We do not recommend manually integrating”, but do know if you have customers that built the API calls in ABAP?

    3) We expect a flow like
    a) OAUTH for authentication and get token
    b) REST API call to select schema and upload PDF
    c) Rest API call in poll loop until success or fail
    Is this a normal/possible flow?

    Best regards
    Thomas Madsen Nielsen

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  • Ianaré Sévi

    Team•

    Apr 27

    Hello,

    Is it guaranteed that no data leaves Europe?

    Yes, if the EU option is chosen no data leaves the EU datacenters. Documents and results are deleted after processing (when using the API).

    I guess ABAP programming is what you call manual integration and in documentation you say “We do not recommend manually integrating”, but do know if you have customers that built the API calls in ABAP?

    We discourage manual integration because of the asynchronous nature of the API. Beginners sometimes can get confused. There are users connected to SAP and with the Pro plan we can provide some help/support for this.

    We expect a flow like …

    Yes, except there is no OAuth step, you just pass the API token in the auth header. If you are not able to POST the file as form-data, you can also convert the PDF to base64 and POST as application/json.

    Hope this helps

    • Thomas Madsen Nielsen

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      Apr 27

      Thank you for very fast reply.

      You say “Yes, if the EU option is chosen no data leaves the EU datacenters.”, but is that not the “Default Processing Zone” selection?
      As I understand I can only chose default processing zone Europe if I have at least Pro Plan, so to be sure data stays in EU/UK, I must at least have PRO plan.

      Is that correctly understood?



      • Ianaré Sévi

        Team•

        Apr 27

        You can select the Processing Zone either at the organization level so all models will use the same Zone, or at the model level if you have both EU-only and US-only requirements.

        If no Processing Zone is selected then we will route requests either to EU or US datacenters. To simplify, you can assume the Zone will be randomly chosen.

        You are correct that you need at least a Pro plan to select a Processing Zone.

      • Ianaré Sévi

        Team•

        Apr 27

        Sorry forgot to mention that we can activate the Processing Zone during your trial period if the option is not already active.