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A Classification skill is used to determine the document type. The type of document determines how the document will be processed, the fields that will be extracted, and rules that will be checked. It also allows the documents to undergo initial manual sorting (such as being sent to the correct company department). ABBYY Vantage lets you train a Classification skill without having to go through the tedious process of creating rules. All you have to do is specify your desired classes and provide some example documents for each one. ABBYY software uses multimodal machine learning algorithms, image processing, and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze training documents and determine the parameters that will be used to identify documents of a specific class. A classification model is then trained using these parameters. A classifier that has been trained this way will be able to process low-quality images and discern between even the slightest differences in document types using document text and various objects on the image (for example, seals and signatures).

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Usage Methods

A Classification skill can be used both as part of Process skills and separately:
  • Workflow with Process skills. Incoming documents are automatically sorted by type using a Classification skill (such as invoices and contracts). After that, the sorted documents are sent to the appropriate company departments for processing.
  • Workflow without Process skills. Incoming documents are sorted by type either via the API by applying the Classification skill to each document, or through a third-party application built around the API (such as Try Any Skill demo application). This workflow can be used, for example, to process archives or to distribute incoming requests or documents among responsible departments.
Important! Currently, only one file can be processed by a Classification skill as part of a single transaction. If you need to classify several files containing documents of different types, use the Classify Activity Process skill.