Creating Structured Layouts

• Updated on Mar 19, 2025
• Published on Mar 18, 2025
• 9 minute(s) read

If you plan on processing completed forms through Hyperscience, you first need to create a Structured layout for the form. After you add the layout to Hyperscience, you can use the Layout Editor to define what information the system should extract from the processed pages that match the specific layout.

Create a Structured layout

1. Go to Library > Layouts.

2. Click Add Layout.

3. Click Structured Layout, and then click Next.

4. Upload a PDF, TIFF, JPG, or PNG file in one of the following ways:

   • Drag and drop the image file into the box provided.
   • Click Choose File to find the file on your machine and upload it.
     • If you upload a multi-page TIFF or PDF file, a single layout variation will be created from the file.

5. If your form consists of multiple files, upload additional files by clicking Add More Files.

   • The system will create separate layouts for each TIFF or PDF file that you upload.

6. Click Next.

7. Enter a name for your layout in the Layout Name field.

8. Under Language, click on the drop-down list, and click on the language that you expect people will use when entering information in this layout’s documents.

   • If you expect specific fields to contain text in different languages than the document’s main language, you can select languages specific to those fields in the Layout Editor.

9. Click Create.

By following these steps, you will create a layout with a single variation. You can add variations to the layout by following the steps in Adding a Variation to a Layout.

Access the Layout Editor

You can specify the information that should be extracted from submitted pages that match the layout by defining the field metadata in the Layout Editor.

To access the Layout Editor:

1. Go to Library > Layouts, and click on the name of the layout you want to edit.

2. Click on Layout Variations, and click on the name of the variation.

Using the Layout Editor

Page viewer

To change between pages in the layout or layout variation, click on the page thumbnails on the left-most panel, or use the paging controls above the table of extracted fields and layout identifiers.

Field list

The right panel displays both Layout Identifiers and Fields together, across all pages.

• Fields are highlighted in blue. Layout IDs are highlighted in green.
• Selecting a field or layout ID on the right panel will focus the page image in the middle panel to the corresponding bounding box for that field.

When you create a Structured layout, the system attempts to identify its fields and adds them to the fields list. You can edit the bounding boxes and any settings for these fields.

Defining fields

On a layout for a Structured document, fields have two elements:

• A bounding box that defines the area on the page where one expects to find a field.
• Metadata, which consists of settings used by the machine to read and process the field value, as well as names used to label the information extracted from the field.