How Each Parsing Function Saves Ouput

Here is a table that describes the functions for parsing documents.

Function# of DocumentsReturn Results as ObjectSave ResultsWhen to Use
parse_documentsMultipleYesNoYou want to parse multiple documents and return the output in the Terminal.
parse_and_save_documentsMultipleNoYesYou want to parse multiple documents and save the output as JSON files.
parse_and_save_document1Optional*Optional*You want to parse one document.

* If you save the results to a directory, the results are not returned as objects.