Method

Specifies how the entity's value is obtained from the document.

Enums
`METHOD_UNSPECIFIED`	Unspecified method. It defaults to `EXTRACT` .
`EXTRACT`	The entity's value is directly extracted as-is from the document text.
`DERIVE`	The entity's value is derived through inference and is not necessarily an exact text extraction from the document.

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