Unlike Document skills, Document Splitter skills can only be created and edited in Advanced Designer.
When to use a Document Splitter skill
Use a Document Splitter skill to:- Assemble pages into documents.
- Separate annexes from primary documents.
- Determine each document’s type while splitting.
- Reorder pages and remove blank or garbage pages.
Configure a Document Splitter skill
After you create a Document Splitter skill on the start page, configure it in this order:Skill settings
Click the settings button next to the skill name to view and adjust Document Splitter skill settings.
Upload documents
On the Documents tab, upload the documents the skill will work with.
Configure activities
On the Activities tab, build the document processing flow, ending with a Splitter Script activity.
Configure the Splitter Script activity
Define the rules that turn the flow of pages into a set of documents — including which page numbers belong to each document. See Splitter Script activity.
Test the skill
On the Documents tab, choose Test Skill for selected documents, or Test Skill Using This Set for a test set, and check how the skill splits and labels the page stream before you publish.
Publish
On the Publish tab, publish the skill to make it available in the Skill Catalog in ABBYY Vantage.
Use a Document Splitter skill
A published Document Splitter skill is consumed by the Assemble activity of a Process skill in ABBYY Vantage. In the Process skill flow, the Assemble activity invokes the published splitter to break the incoming page stream into separate documents before downstream activities run.Next steps
Splitting use cases
Worked scenarios for the four splitter patterns.
Splitter Script activity
Reference for the script that defines document boundaries.
Activities
Configure the upstream classification and extraction activities.
Assemble activity
Plug a published Document Splitter skill into a Process skill.