# Segmentation Strategy

Controls the segmentation strategy

The Fractur AI API allows you to specify a `segmentation_strategy` for each document. This strategy controls how the document is segmented.

We have two strategies:

* `LayoutAnalysis`: Run our state-of-the-art layout analysis model to identify the layout elements. This is the default strategy.
* `Page`: Each segment is a page.

This is how you can configure the segmentation strategy:

PythoncURL

```python
from Fractur_ai import Fractur
from Fractur_ai.models import Configuration, SegmentationStrategy

Fractur = Fractur()

Fractur.upload("path/to/file", Configuration(
    segmentation_strategy=SegmentationStrategy.LAYOUT_ANALYSIS 
))
```

### [​](https://docs.chunkr.ai/docs/features/layout-analysis/segmentation_strategy#when-to-use-each-strategy)When to use each strategy <a href="#when-to-use-each-strategy" id="when-to-use-each-strategy"></a>

For most documents, we recommend using the `LayoutAnalysis` strategy. This will give you the best results.

Use `Page` for:

* Faster processing speed when you need quick results and layout isn’t critical
* Documents with unusual layouts that confuse the layout analysis model
* If the layout is complex but not very information dense, `Page` + VLM can generate surprisingly good HTML and markdown (see [Segment Processing](https://docs.chunkr.ai/docs/features/segment-processing)).


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