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# About the ABBYY FlexiCapture Application Server Web Services API

> Connect external systems to the ABBYY FlexiCapture Application Server over SOAP and HTTP to create document processing tasks, run them, and retrieve results.

The Web Services API of the Application Server enables an external system to connect to the Application Server of ABBYY FlexiCapture using the SOAP protocol over HTTP, create a document processing task, start the task, and get the results. The Web Services API allows you to create your own applications that use ABBYY FlexiCapture as a service that analyzes document images and exports the results.

The Application Server Web Services API can be used to control a pre-configured workflow. Before you commence, you need to create projects on the Project Setup Station and specify the Document Definitions, batch types, image processing settings, etc. to be used.

The control is exercised by calling Web Services API [methods](/flexi-capture/api/methods/methods). Standard and specially designed [data types](/flexi-capture/api/structures/structures) are used as parameters and returned values.

The formal description of the service (WSDL) is available here:

https\://\<ApplicationServer>/FlexiCapture12/Server/API/v1/WSDL where \<ApplicationServer> is the name of the computer on which the Application Server is installed.