Below describes the flow of API calls that should be made in order to process a submission and retrieve results using the Ping.Vision API.

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1. Create submission

The first call to create the submission and trigger processing should be made to the Initiate Submsission API. Upon making a successful request, Ping Vision will begin automated processing on any files uploaded. The response will contain an id field which will be used for the next step.

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2. Polling for results

In order to retrieve the processing status of the submission created in step 1, you will need to poll the submission to retrieve the results. In order to this you will need to use the submission id to make an API call to the List Recent Submission Activity API and appending the id as a query parameter (ie https://vision.pingintel.com/api/v1/submission?id=<id>&fields=all). This will return a response of all the necessary information for evaluating its status including workflow_status_name, jobs, and automated_processing_failed keys. Use the automated_processing_failed to determine if the processing job has failed. Depending on the workflow a successful response might look something like this: 
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"automated_processing_failed": false,
"workflow_status_name": "Waiting for scrubbing",
"jobs": [
    {
        "job_id": "4905aeec-52f4-11f0-9319-0242ac110005",
        "filenames": [
            "My Example SOV.xlsx"
        ],
        "job_type": "SOVFIXER",
        "created_time": "2025-06-27T01:15:59.909538Z",
        "updated_time": "2025-06-27T01:16:34.583897Z",
        "user_id": 56,
        "processing_status": "C",
        "processing_pct_complete": 100.0,
        "processing_last_message": "Processing complete.",
        "job_type_details": {
            "sovfixer_sovid": "s-ma-ping-333xxx",
            "sovfixer_result_status": null,
            "sovfixer_result_message": null
        },
        "sovid": "s-ma-ping-333xxx"
    }
]
...

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3. Downloading documents

Assuming a successful processing result was received from step 2, you can proceed to download the resulting output documents from the API. To do this you can use the documents key from the response in step 2. The documents key will contain a list of document objects associated with the submission. Use the document objects document_type attribute to determine which you would like to download. For each document you choose to download you can make a call to the document objects url attribute which leverages the Download Submission Document API.