The Easting API

Most document-AI APIs return an answer. This one returns an answer and a judgement about the answer, because on a boundary a confident wrong number is worse than no number. The model transcribes and deterministic code decides: the traverse is recomputed from the extracted bearings and distances, closure is measured, and the computed area is compared against the acreage the document states. Two independent signals have to agree before anything is called PASS.

It reads deeds, recorded easements, plats and utility as-builts. One route for a single document (/v1/extract), one that submits and polls for anything that might run long (/v1/extracts), and a batch endpoint for volume (/v1/batches). Out the other side: the extraction itself, a signed certificate, DXF and GeoPackage. Built for pipelines reading county records at volume, and for anyone who would rather call an endpoint than click.

# One document, synchronously. Good for a small deed and a first try.
curl -X POST https://api.easting.ai/v1/extract \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $EASTING_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/pdf" \
  -H "x-document-name: forsyth_3210_350.pdf" \
  --data-binary @deed.pdf

The documentation

The working documentation lives at docs.easting.ai:

• The guide — authentication, and choosing between sync, async and batch.
• The reference — every route and field, generated from the schema the server validates against.
• Errors — every type the service returns, and what to do about each.
• Artifacts — the certificate, DXF and GeoPackage, the signature on them, and the serialization rule that keeps it verifying.
• Concepts — what PASS, REVIEW and FAIL mean, and the checks that earn them.

openapi.json is stable enough to generate a client from, and an interactive console lives at api.easting.ai/docs.

Pricing

Metered is $0.50 a document: nothing included, no seats, card on file, billed monthly from usage. It slopes with volume, to $0.35 above 2,000 documents a month and $0.25 above 10,000 through /v1/batches. That is per document, not per page — a recorded instrument runs a median of three pages in our evaluation corpus, so per-page credit prices are charged several times over on every one. If a human is reviewing the results, a $10 seat with 50 documents a month is almost certainly cheaper.