> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.landing.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Parsing Functions Comparison Table

export const companyName = 'LandingAI';

export const ade = 'Agentic Document Extraction';

## How Each Parsing Function Saves Ouput

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

| Function                    | # of Documents | Return Results as Object | Save Results | When to Use                                                                 |
| --------------------------- | -------------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| parse\_documents            | Multiple       | Yes                      | No           | You want to parse multiple documents and return the output in the Terminal. |
| parse\_and\_save\_documents | Multiple       | No                       | Yes          | You want to parse multiple documents and save the output as JSON files.     |
| parse\_and\_save\_document  | 1              | Optional\*               | Optional\*   | You want to parse one document.                                             |

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