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Settings for Vision. Values fall back through three levels: document → SDK → built-in default. Writes target the document only when set on a document’s settings, otherwise the SDK globally when set on SdkSettings.

Tags: Vision

from nutrient_sdk import VisionSettings

Construction

VisionSettings is accessed through a Document instance for per-document overrides, or via SdkSettings for SDK-wide defaults.

# Per-document override
with Document.open("input.pdf") as doc:
settings = doc.settings.vision_settings
settings.some_field = new_value # mutate fields directly
# SDK-wide default (applies to all documents)
SdkSettings.vision_settings.some_field = new_value

Settings are configured by writing to fields on the returned object. The settings property itself cannot be reassigned — doc.settings.vision_settings = other_settings is rejected.

Properties

enable_ocr

@property
def enable_ocr(self) -> OcrActivationMode
@enable_ocr.setter
def enable_ocr(self, value: OcrActivationMode) -> None

Controls OCR resource loading and OCR-based word detection inside the ICR image pipeline.

Type: OcrActivationMode

Default: OcrActivationMode.Auto


enable_vlm

@property
def enable_vlm(self) -> bool
@enable_vlm.setter
def enable_vlm(self, value: bool) -> None

Indicates whether the ICR image pipeline should run late VLM augmentation. also enables this behavior for backward-compatible engine selection.

Type: bool

Default: false


engine

@property
def engine(self) -> VisionEngine
@engine.setter
def engine(self, value: VisionEngine) -> None

Specifies which vision processing engine/pipeline to use for content extraction.

Type: VisionEngine

Default: VisionEngine.Icr


features

@property
def features(self) -> VisionFeatures
@features.setter
def features(self, value: VisionFeatures) -> None

Vision features to enable during document processing.

Type: VisionFeatures

Default: VisionFeatures.All


output_format

@property
def output_format(self) -> VisionOutputFormat
@output_format.setter
def output_format(self, value: VisionOutputFormat) -> None

Format of content returned by . Defaults to .

Type: VisionOutputFormat

Default: VisionOutputFormat.Json


provider

@property
def provider(self) -> VlmProvider
@provider.setter
def provider(self, value: VlmProvider) -> None

The Vision Language Model provider to use for AI-powered features.

Type: VlmProvider

Default: VlmProvider.Custom