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You can create a derived skill from any skill in the Skill Catalog, including built-in and read-only skills. To create a derived skill, do one of the following:
  • Select a skill in the Skill Catalog and click the derive skill icon.
  • Double-click the name of a skill in the Skill Catalog and in the dialog box that opens, click Create and Edit Derived Skill.
To see the base skill of a derived skill, click the settings button next to the name of the derived skill.

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Base skill activity

When a derived skill is created, an activity referencing its base skill is added at the beginning of the document processing flow. This activity is named Base: <Base Skill Name> and cannot be edited or deleted.
To test other activities in isolation, exclude the Base: <Base Skill Name> activity from the document processing flow by redirecting its incoming arrow to a different activity. If you’re not satisfied with the derived skill after testing, consider creating a custom skill from scratch.

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Fast Learning activity

A Fast Learning activity is also added immediately after the Base: <Base Skill Name> activity. You can modify this activity as follows: enable or disable fields, add new fields, or train the activity. If needed, you can delete this activity; in this case, the skill will no longer be trainable. For more information about the Fast Learning activity, see Setting up a Fast Learning activity. When updating a derived skill to the new version of its base skill, the Fast Learning activity does not change. This preserves the training results on custom examples in the derived skill.

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Adding additional activities

You can also add other activities to the document processing flow at any position before or after the Base: <Base Skill Name> activity. For example, you can add an Address Parsing activity to break down full addresses extracted by the base skill.

Derived skills overview

What derived skills are and when to use them.

Configure a derived skill

Customize fields, rules, and text recognition.

Update a derived skill

Update to a new base-skill version.