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Creating a Document Definition is the main and most critical stage in configuring a project, and it determines the quality of data obtained after processing. A Document Definition describes the location of document elements and indicates the fields used in data extraction. When you create a Document Definition, you specify field properties along with their range of values, and you configure data export settings.
In a distributed installation, you can create Document Definitions only on the Project Setup Station. In a standalone installation, you can create them only in Administrator mode.

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Create a Document Definition

1

Open the Document Definitions dialog box

In the main menu of ABBYY FlexiCapture, select Project → Document Definitions.
2

Create a new Document Definition

In the Document Definitions dialog box, click New.
3

Follow the wizard

Follow the instructions in the Document Definition Wizard.

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Update a Document Definition after editing

If a Document Definition has been modified, update it for the changes to take effect. If the changes also affect fields already marked up on your documents, re-recognize the batches that contain those documents.
Re-recognizing discards any manual changes to the markup of documents in training batches, classification batches, and NLP batches.
To make sure a Document Definition update does not affect markup in these batches, select the Do not rerecognize documents option. An update can affect document batches that are currently at a processing stage on the server. In that case, wait until processing has finished, and then exclude these batches from the update. You can re-recognize these batches separately later.