Process via API
Authenticate, upload a document, and extract data using the REST API. Best for developers integrating Vantage into applications. ~10 minutes.
Process via UI
Upload a document and review extracted data in the Vantage web interface. Best for business users and evaluation. ~10 minutes.
How Vantage processes a document
Whether you use the API or the web UI, every document goes through the same pipeline:Select a skill
A skill is an AI model trained to extract data from a specific document type. Vantage has 100+ pre-trained skills — or you can build your own.
Submit your document
Upload a PDF, image, or Office document. Vantage creates a transaction — a processing job that tracks the document through extraction.
Extract structured data
The skill reads the document and extracts field values (e.g., invoice number, vendor name, total amount). Each field gets a confidence score from 0 to 100 indicating how certain Vantage is about the extraction.
What you’ll need
- An ABBYY Vantage account — contact ABBYY to request a tenant
- A sample document (invoice, receipt, purchase order, or any supported type)
- About 10 minutes
Key concepts
| Concept | What it means |
|---|---|
| Skill | An AI model trained to extract data from a specific document type. There are 100+ pre-trained skills, or you can create your own. |
| Document Skill | The most common skill type — extracts named fields (like “InvoiceNumber” or “VendorName”) from a single document type. |
| Transaction | A processing job. Each time you submit a document to a skill, Vantage creates a transaction to track it. |
| Confidence Score | A number from 0 to 100 indicating how certain Vantage is about an extracted value. Fields below configured thresholds are flagged for review. |
| Manual Review | A built-in interface where human operators verify and correct extracted data before it moves to downstream systems. |
After processing your first document, see Understanding Your Results to learn how to read the extracted data, and What to Learn Next for guidance on where to go based on your goals.