Field Identification Quality Assurance

Published on Mar 18, 2025
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Field Identification QA tasks are specific to Semi-structured documents. All fields’ occurrences and bounding boxes are eligible for Field Identification QA sampling.

To start a Field Identification QA task, follow these steps:

Go to Tasks > Perform Tasks.
In the Quality Assurance Tasks card, click Perform Tasks for Identification QA.

In order to improve performance, it is imperative to perform QA tasks using the best practices. For more information on these, see Best Practices for Field ID Supervision and QA.

Field Identification QA tasks

During Field Identification QA, you need to review all fields that are sampled for QA within a document and make sure their locations are correct. If a field’s location is incorrect, you need to redraw its bounding box.

All fields within a document that are sampled for QA are listed in the right-hand sidebar. All fields that aren’t reviewed are marked with a red warning sign

| If… | Then… | | The field’s location is correct. | Proceed with reviewing the rest of the document’s fields (if any). | | The field’s location is incorrect. | Draw a bounding box around the field’s correct location. | | The field is identified as “not present” during an extraction task (by human or machine), but it actually exists in the document. | Draw a bounding box around the field’s location. | | The field is identified as “present” during an extraction task (by human or machine), but it actually does not exist in the document. | Delete the field’s bounding box by clicking its X button. |

Note
You can add and remove fields’ occurrences and bounding boxes during Field ID QA.

If the layout is incorrect

If the page displayed in the QA task does not appear to have been matched to the correct layout, follow these steps:

Go to the Document Details drop-down list in the right-hand sidebar and expand it.
Click the Mark Layout Variation Incorrect button.

If the page is marked as incorrect:

The task will terminate and the user will be taken to the next Field ID QA task that exists. If one does not, they will be taken back to the dashboard.
None of the fields on the respective document will be scored for accuracy.
The document will not be automatically marked as "No Layout Found".

It is imperative that these pages are caught in QA because we do not want these pages to be included in a Field Locator Model Training job. If those inaccurate pages were included in a training job, it may lead to poor model performance.

Note
This practice is especially important if you have the Continuous Field Locator model improvement setting enabled in the "Identification" section of Administration > System Settings.

Field ID QA keyboard shortcuts

Field Identification QA

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