---
title: "Import an already stored document to an existing collection."
method: PUT
path: "/collections/{collection_id}/documents/{document_id}"
tags: ["Collections"]
---

# Import an already stored document to an existing collection.

`PUT /collections/{collection_id}/documents/{document_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://h2ogpte.genai.h2o.ai/api/v1`
- URL: `https://h2ogpte.genai.h2o.ai/api/v1/collections/{collection_id}/documents/{document_id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/h2o/apis/h2ogpte-rest-api/docs/collections/:collection_id/documents/:document_id/put.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Import an already stored document to an existing collection.

## Path parameters

- `collection_id` string, required
- `document_id` string, required

## Query parameters

- `copy_document` boolean
- `preserve_metadata` boolean
- `gen_doc_summaries` boolean
- `gen_doc_questions` boolean
- `ocr_model` string
- `tesseract_lang` string
- `keep_tables_as_one_chunk` boolean
- `chunk_by_page` boolean
- `handwriting_check` boolean
- `ingest_mode` 'standard' | 'agent_only'
- `timeout` number, double

## Response `204`

Successful operation

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Unauthorized - Invalid or missing API key
- `default`: Unexpected error

---

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