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Documents are processed in several stages, with certain routines performed at each stage, either automatically or with the Operator’s help. The stages run in a fixed order: a document must pass through the earlier stages before it reaches a later one. The required stages are adding images, recognition, verification, and export. At each stage, a processing queue is formed (see Task creation for details). A queue represents the set of tasks in the corresponding stage. As processing progresses, documents move from the first queue (Scanning) toward the last queue (Processed). In the case of large processing volumes, the verification stage can be subdivided into smaller stages, each processed by its own Operator. In other words, you can create separate stages for data verification, verification, document assembly checks, and export confirmation. Some processing stages are required, while others are optional. Whether a stage is required depends on the selected workflow scheme.

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Stages

Documents move through these stages in order. If some of the batch documents are sent to Exceptions, the whole batch is excluded from processing and is not exported.

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Task creation

To process large volumes of documents efficiently, batches can be split into separate tasks. Tasks are created from documents on the Application Server when documents arrive in the stage and become available for processing. Tasks are formed depending on the specified workflow settings. In Advanced mode, the number of documents in the task can be specified in the stage properties. If the Wait for all documents of a batch option is selected, documents are sent to the next stage only after all of them are processed in the current stage. In the batch integrity check stage, access to all documents of the batch is required, so in this stage the Operator always receives the whole batch. You can also send earlier-created tasks to a stage, for example, when sending documents from the Verification Station with the Create task option selected in the Send To dialog box.
For tasks created in earlier versions of ABBYY FlexiCapture or tasks that dropped out of processing, new tasks must be formed in the Administration and Monitoring Console.
The workflow mode is specified in the Batch type settings.