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Documentation Index

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The use cases below are starting points for building your own skills in Advanced Designer, or for improving skills you started in ABBYY Vantage. Each one walks through the activities and configuration choices for a common scenario.
If you have existing FlexiLayouts from ABBYY FlexiLayout Studio, you can reuse them when creating a new Document skill — see Create Document Skill from ABBYY FlexiLayout Project.

Pick a use case

Pick a scenario based on your input and where the skill comes from.
ScenarioWhen to use
Extract data from documentsEach input is already a discrete document and you need fields out of it.
Split a flow of pagesYour input is a continuous page stream (for example, a scanned batch) that needs to be separated before extraction.
Edit a skill from VantageYou started a skill in the cloud Skill Designer and need Advanced Designer’s extra capabilities — custom activities, scripting, or complex layouts.

Extract data from documents

Build Document skills for structured, semi-structured, unstructured, and mixed document sets.

Split a flow of pages

Build Document Splitter skills that separate a continuous page stream into discrete documents.

Edit a skill from Vantage

Open a skill you started in Vantage and extend it with custom activities or scripting.