> ## 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.

# Activities in Advanced Designer

> Choose and configure the activities that make up a document processing flow in Advanced Designer (classification, extraction, NLP, and customization).

The **Activities** tab in Advanced Designer is where you build a document processing flow. Each activity is a step in the flow that performs a specific action, such as classifying documents, extracting fields, parsing addresses, splitting pages, or running custom logic. For end-to-end examples, see [Advanced Designer use cases](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/use-cases/use-cases).

## Edit skills created in Vantage

When you open a skill created in Vantage, the **Activities** tab shows a flow with a single Fast Learning activity that extracts fields using Vantage machine learning. To extend the skill, add new activities for the fields you want to handle differently.

## Create skills in Advanced Designer

When you build a skill in Advanced Designer, drop activities into the flow between **Start** and **Finish**. They run in the order you place them. To branch the flow on a condition, use the IF activity. To fork on a field value, create a workflow item with several Extraction Rules activities and map them to the values of that field.

## Choose an activity

| Use case                               | Activities                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| :------------------------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Route documents by layout or content   | [Classify By Text and Image](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/classify-by-text-and-image), [Classify By Company](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/classify-by-company)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Extract from semi-structured documents | [Fast Learning](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/fast-learning), [Deep Learning](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/deep-learning-semi-structured), [Hypothesis Filtering](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/hypothesis-filtering), [Extraction Rules](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/extraction-rules)                                                                                                                                                                |
| Extract from structured forms          | [Forms](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/forms)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Extract from text (NLP)                | [Prompt-based](/vantage/documentation/skills/prompt-extraction), [Segmentation](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/segmentation), [Deep Learning for NLP](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/deep-learning-nlp), [Named Entities (NER)](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/ner), [Address Parsing](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/address-parsing), [Extraction Rules for NLP](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/nlp-extraction-rules/extraction-rules) |
| Add custom logic or branching          | [Script](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/nlp-extraction-rules/script-activity), [IF](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/nlp-extraction-rules/if-activity)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Build a Document Splitter skill        | [Splitter Script](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/splitter-script)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |

<Note>
  A document processing flow can contain only one [Fast Learning](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/activities/fast-learning) activity. Other activity types can be used multiple times.
</Note>

NLP activities support Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Standard), Russian, and Spanish.

## Related topics

* [Advanced Designer use cases](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/use-cases/use-cases)
* [Advanced Designer tutorial](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/tutorial/tutorial)
* [Document skills in Advanced Designer](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/document-skills/document-skills)
* [LLMs in ABBYY Vantage](/vantage/documentation/llms/llms)
