Use Case

The following glossary is the full list of supported data types and their corresponding use cases, pipelines, and available labels. The API task type column refers to the task type you should use if you are following our API reference.

Uploaded data type	Available use cases	Available pipelines	Available labels	API reference task type
Text	Content Classification	Standard Consensus	Annotation Linear scale List selection Tree selection	`textcollection`
Text Generation	Generative	Annotation Text response	`textcollection`
Transcription	Standard	Annotation Text response	`textcollection`
Named Entity Recognition	Standard	Annotation Entity Attribute Annotation attribute Link attribute	`namedentityrecognition`
Content Collection	Standard Consensus	Annotation Text response List selection Tree selection Date Linear scale Ranking Label group	`textcollection`
Image	Object Detection	Standard	Annotation Box Polygon Point Ellipse Cuboid Line Attribute Global attribute Annotation attribute Link attribute	`imageannotation`
Semantic Segmentation	Standard	Attribute Global attribute Annotation attribute Link attribute	`segmentannotation`
Entity Extraction	Standard	Annotation Entity Attribute Global attribute Annotation attribute Link attribute	`doctranscription`
All use cases from the Text section except Named Entity Recognition apply here too.
Video	Object & Event Detection	Standard	Annotation Box Polygon Point Ellipse Cuboid Line Attribute Global attribute Annotation attribute Link attribute	`videoplaybackannotation`
All use cases from the Text section except Named Entity Recognition apply here too.
PDFs/Documents	Entity Extraction	Standard	Annotation Entity Attribute Global attribute Annotation attribute Link attribute	`doctranscription`
All use cases from the Text section except Named Entity Recognition apply here too.
Audio	All use cases from the Text section except Named Entity Recognition apply here too.

To see different examples of our use cases and their supported label types, please refer to the images below.

Object Detection

Comprehensive annotation for 2D images. Supports box, polygon, line, point, cuboid, and ellipse geometries. This is the recommended task type for annotating images with vector geometric shapes. Supported Label Types & Examples: