> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.abbyy.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# About document classification

> Document classification assigns images or texts to predefined classes; ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 offers trainable classifiers for document types and variants.

Classification is the process of putting document images or text documents into certain predefined [document classes](/flexi-capture/fls/glossary/glossary-main-body#class-document).

Documents can be classified manually or automatically.

Manual classification of large numbers of documents is:

* Labor-intensive
* Costly
* Slow
* Error-prone when working against tight deadlines

ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 includes classification technologies that can be easily trained to classify documents by [type](/flexi-capture/appendix/glossary-main-body#document-type) and [variant](/flexi-capture/appendix/glossary-main-body#document-variant) without creating FlexiLayouts in FlexiLayout Studio.

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  Whenever a page is classified (this includes the [classifier training](/flexi-capture/fls/classify-fls-train) mode), it is also recognized, thus decrementing the page counter. Any further operations on the page will not affect the page counter.
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