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REST API for document classification, extraction, and analytics. This is where you go after you have an API key from us.

How to get an API key

The Pathnovo API isn't self-serve. We do a short call first so we understand your documents, the volume you're running, and the system you want results delivered to. Then our team sets up a project for you and sends the API key.

The fastest way to start:

  • Email us at hello@pathnovo.com with a quick note about what you want to extract.
  • Or book a demo and we'll walk you through the platform on a call.

What happens after you reach out:

  1. Discovery call. 30 minutes with our sales team. Bring 2 or 3 sample documents if you can, we'll show you the extraction output live.
  2. Free trial. Start a free 14-day trial with 100 credits (~5 P&IDs of processing). Send us your sample documents and we return structured JSON with a field-level accuracy report inside 48 hours. No credit card, no contract, no commitment.
  3. Provisioning. Once you're ready to integrate, our integration team creates your project, issues your API key, shares the base URL, and confirms your rate limits in writing.
  4. Integration support. Our integration engineers stay on a shared Slack or email thread with your team through your first ingest. We help with auth, the upload flow, and mapping the extraction output into your downstream system (SAP, Maximo, your data lake, whatever).

What you can do with the API

Upload an engineering document, Pathnovo classifies it, runs the right extraction pipeline for that document type, and gives you back typed JSON. Five resource groups cover the full lifecycle:

  • Documents. Upload single files, ZIP archives, or import from a URL. Stream live progress over Server-Sent Events.
  • Classification. Read the document type Pathnovo assigned and override it manually if we got it wrong.
  • Extraction. Pull the typed result for any document. The shape depends on the document type, look up the schema in the schemas reference.
  • Schemas. List the document types we support and fetch the JSON schema for any one of them.
  • Analytics. Per-project usage and accuracy metrics. Hook this up to your dashboard or billing reconciliation.
17
API endpoints
5
Resource groups
22
Document types
7
Schema classes
1100+
Typed fields

Get started

API
API reference
17 endpoints for documents, classification, extraction, schemas, and analytics.
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Schemas
Extraction schemas
JSON shapes for each of the 22 supported document types.
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Shared
Common title_block
The 28-field header every schema embeds. Start here to understand the baseline.
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Reference

Reference
Cross-schema relationships
How documents link to each other via shared identifiers like equipment_tag and line_number.
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Need help

If you're stuck on auth, the upload flow, or mapping a result into your system, email hello@pathnovo.com. Your integration engineer responds in the same thread, no ticket queue. Replies are usually under two hours during business hours (IST and US Eastern).