Audience
If you’re new to APIs, use this tutorial to return document data from an example tax form. Or, if you’re familiar with APIs:- see the API quickstart to get a sample API response.
- explore the Sensible Postman collection:
Prerequisites
See prerequisites.Run the request in Postman
To run a Sensible API request in Postman, follow these steps:- Copy the following code sample, and replace
*YOUR_API_KEY*
with your API key:
cURL
- In your Postman workspace, click Import, select Raw text, paste the code sample, and follow the prompts to import to code sample.

- Download the following example document, which works with the prerequisite tax_forms document type:
Example document | Download link |
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- Correct the path to the downloaded document: In the request, click the Body tab, select binary, then click Select file and select the document you downloaded:

- Click Send. The response includes a
parsed_document
object that looks something like the following:
JSON
1040_2021
)? As a convenience, Sensible evaluates all the configs for the document type (tax_forms
), and automatically chooses the one that fits best.
(Optional) See how it works in the Sensible app
To see this example in the Sensible app:- Log into the Sensible app.
- Navigate to the 1040 configuration in the tax forms document type.
- Visually examine the example document (middle pane), config (left pane), and extracted data (right pane) to better understand the configuration for the API call you just ran:
