Extracting data from writs of execution
A court clerk issues a writ of execution at the judgment creditor's request, on a state checkbox form or as an order drafted in prose. The sheriff's civil unit receives one for every judgment it enforces by sale, filed on paper or sent as a scanned PDF by the creditor's attorney.
The sheriff needs the case number, the amount to satisfy, the post-judgment rate and per diem, and the property. Those feed the sheriff's sale process, which schedules the sale, publishes notice and computes the amount due on the day of sale.
What makes writs of execution hard
Checkbox forms and drafted orders
California's EJ-130 sets the writ's type with checkboxes at the top, while other courts issue a writ drafted in prose by the creditor's attorney.
The money sits in sentences
On a drafted writ, the sum, the date it is stated as of, the post-judgment rate and the daily interest can share two sentences.
A deadline set by statute
A writ has to be returned within a fixed period, 180 days on California's form, so the deadline has to be read from the order.
Parse, extract, verify
Parse
Parse turns the document into reading-order Markdown and a hierarchy of blocks (text, tables, figures), and grounds each block to its exact location on the page.
Extract
You define the fields in a JSON schema, and Extract returns their values in a consistent, structured format, each linked back to where it appears in the Markdown.
Verify
Each value links back to where it appears, down to the character range in the Markdown, and the page and bounding box in the source document, so every result can be verified.
One writ of execution, end to end
About this document: A writ of execution on real property issued by the Multnomah County Circuit Court in Oregon, heading a sheriff's sale packet. Two scanned portrait pages on line-numbered pleading paper: the caption and the order on page 1, then the money, the creditor and the sealed signature on page 2. Page 2 is featured. The defendants, property and file numbers were replaced with stand-ins.
Processing objective: The objective is to read what the sheriff is ordered to collect, and for whom. The sum and its daily interest are stated inside one sentence. The creditor is named in its own sentence below, and each value grounds to the pleading line that prints it.
Demonstration fields: Amount to satisfy, Per-diem interest, Property, Judgment creditor
The document
2 of 2 pages
Page 1
Page 2shown below
Where each value came from
amount_to_satisfy
{
"value": 450797.72,
"page": 2,
"range": {
"end": 1820,
"start": 1726
},
"box": {
"xmin": 0.11344,
"ymin": 0.14907,
"xmax": 0.88742,
"ymax": 0.17324
}
}per_diem_interest
{
"value": 110.96,
"page": 2,
"range": {
"end": 1916,
"start": 1821
},
"box": {
"xmin": 0.1142,
"ymin": 0.18541,
"xmax": 0.88915,
"ymax": 0.20806
}
}property_address
{
"value": "100 Sample Avenue, Portland, OR 97000",
"page": 2,
"range": {
"end": 1725,
"start": 1644
},
"box": {
"xmin": 0.11325,
"ymin": 0.11253,
"xmax": 0.88796,
"ymax": 0.13759
}
}judgment_creditor
{
"value": "PennyMac Loan Services, LLC",
"page": 2,
"range": {
"end": 2032,
"start": 1948
},
"box": {
"xmin": 0.17226,
"ymin": 0.25667,
"xmax": 0.86779,
"ymax": 0.2773
}
}How to try it yourself
Everything on this page is reproducible. The sample, its schema, and the Parse and Extract API outputs are published. You can repeat the same two calls from whichever surface you already build on.
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