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Relationship

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Relationship - Amazon Textract

Information about how blocks are related to each other. A Block object contains 0 or more Relation objects in a list, Relationships. For more information, see Block.

The Type element provides the type of the relationship for all blocks in the IDs array.

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Ids

An array of IDs for related blocks. You can get the type of the relationship from the Type element.

Type: Array of strings

Pattern: .*\S.*

Required: No

Type

The type of relationship between the blocks in the IDs array and the current block. The following list describes the relationship types that can be returned.

  • VALUE - A list that contains the ID of the VALUE block that's associated with the KEY of a key-value pair.

  • CHILD - A list of IDs that identify blocks found within the current block object. For example, WORD blocks have a CHILD relationship to the LINE block type.

  • MERGED_CELL - A list of IDs that identify each of the MERGED_CELL block types in a table.

  • ANSWER - A list that contains the ID of the QUERY_RESULT block that’s associated with the corresponding QUERY block.

  • TABLE - A list of IDs that identify associated TABLE block types.

  • TABLE_TITLE - A list that contains the ID for the TABLE_TITLE block type in a table.

  • TABLE_FOOTER - A list of IDs that identify the TABLE_FOOTER block types in a table.

Type: String

Valid Values: VALUE | CHILD | COMPLEX_FEATURES | MERGED_CELL | TITLE | ANSWER | TABLE | TABLE_TITLE | TABLE_FOOTER

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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