Process an Uploaded Document
Create the document record for a just-uploaded file and trigger background processing
Call this after uploading to the URL from Get a Document Upload URL. Enqueues a background job that chunks and embeds the document (OpenAI text-embedding-3-small by default, requiring an embeddings API key configured in Model Configuration). Poll Get a Document to watch processing_status move from pending → processing → completed or failed.
Header Parameters
Request Body
application/json
TypeScript Definitions
Use the request body type in TypeScript.
Request schema for triggering document processing.
Response Body
application/json
application/json
curl -X POST "https://example.com/api/v1/knowledge-base/process-document" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "document_uuid": "string", "s3_key": "string" }'{ "id": 0, "document_uuid": "string", "filename": "string", "file_size_bytes": 0, "file_hash": "string", "mime_type": "string", "processing_status": "string", "processing_error": "string", "total_chunks": 0, "retrieval_mode": "chunked", "custom_metadata": {}, "docling_metadata": {}, "source_url": "string", "collection_uuid": "string", "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "organization_id": 0, "created_by": 0, "is_active": true}