Getting Started

Get started with ABBYY Vantage by processing your first document in about 10 minutes via the REST API or the web UI, and see how AI skills extract data.

This section walks you through processing your first document end-to-end with ABBYY Vantage. You’ll upload a real document, apply an AI-powered skill, and get structured data back — in about 10 minutes.

Choose your path depending on how you want to work with Vantage:

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:

1. Authenticate or sign in

   Connect to your Vantage tenant — via API credentials or the web login.

2. 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.

3. Submit your document

   Upload a PDF, image, or Office document. Vantage creates a transaction — a processing job that tracks the document through extraction.

4. 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.

5. Review and export results

   Download the extracted data as JSON or XML, or verify it in Manual Review — a built-in interface where operators can check and correct fields before the data moves downstream.

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.