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# Standalone API Usage

This section describes the basic structure of a stand-alone application using the API. See the source referenced in Java API Example. Typically, your application takes the following actions:

1. Instantiate an `EDKEngine` object.
2. Set the license key.
3. Configure the engine, load the grammars and select entities.
4. Instantiate an `EDKSession` object and associate it with the engine.
5. Feed UTF-8 encoded text to the session or pass the session a stream it can read.
6. Execute a `for each` loop to obtain an `EDKMatch` object for each match in a session.
7. Get the properties of the match.
8. Release resources when done.

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