Section Element

The section element in Vantage OCR XML output represents a document section: contains a stream element with paragraphs, blocks, and a stream role attribute.

A document section. Includes a stream element.

Stream Element

A sequence of paragraphs and blocks. Includes mainText and elemId elements. Has the following attributes:

Property	Data type	Description
role	string	The stream role. Possible values: garb, text, footnote, incut. The default value is text.
vertCjk	boolean	Indicates whether the stream contains vertical CJK text.
beginPage *	integer	The number of the page on which the stream begins.
endPage	integer	The number of the page on which the stream ends.

MainText Element

The text of the stream. Has the following attributes:

Property	Data type	Description
rtl	boolean	Indicates whether the text is a running title.
columnCount *	integer	The number of columns.

ElemId Element

The element’s identifier. Has the following attribute:

Property	Data type	Description
id *	string	The string ID of the element.

* Indicates a required property.