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ABBYY Vantage Advanced Designer is a Windows desktop application for building Document skills and Document Splitter skills that use custom activities, scripting, or complex document layouts. Skills built in Advanced Designer are then published to ABBYY Vantage for production use.
Advanced Designer runs on Windows only (Windows 10 x64 or Windows Server 2016). See System requirements.

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When to use Advanced Designer

Use Advanced Designer (rather than the cloud-based Skill Designer) when you need:
  • Document Splitter skills — these can only be created in Advanced Designer.
  • Documents with significantly varying layouts or fully unstructured documents.
  • Custom activities or scripting that go beyond what Skill Designer offers.
For typical structured Document skills, the cloud Skill Designer is faster to use and requires no local install.

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Next steps

Install Advanced Designer

Download, install, and configure on Windows.

Getting started

Tour the interface after first launch.

Document skills

Extract field values from documents.

Document Splitter skills

Split a continuous flow of pages into separate documents.

Use cases

See end-to-end scenarios for Advanced Designer.