> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.abbyy.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# ABBYY Vantage

> ABBYY Vantage is an intelligent document processing (IDP) platform that extracts structured data from invoices, purchase orders, tax forms, and hundreds of other document types.

ABBYY Vantage is an intelligent document processing (IDP) platform. It reads invoices, purchase orders, receipts, tax forms, and hundreds of other document types, and returns structured data your systems can act on.

Every job runs on a **skill**, an AI model trained to handle one document type. Start with a pre-trained skill from the [Skill Catalog](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/skill-catalog), or [create your own](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/create-skill) from your own sample documents.

Submit documents through the [REST API](/vantage/getting-started/api), the [web interface](/vantage/getting-started/ui), or a [connector](/vantage/connectors/overview) to a platform your team already runs.

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/vantage/getting-started/overview">
    Process your first document through the API or the web UI in about 10 minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Working with skills" icon="graduation-cap" href="/vantage/documentation/skills/overview">
    Pick a design tool, and then build, train, and publish a skill.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API reference" icon="rectangle-terminal" href="/vantage/developer/api-introduction">
    Authenticate, submit documents, track transactions, and retrieve results.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connectors" icon="plug" href="/vantage/connectors/overview">
    Run Vantage skills from UiPath, Power Automate, Alteryx, Pega, and other platforms.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What you can automate with Vantage

| Use case | Where to start |
| - | - |
| Accounts payable | [Invoice skills](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/invoice-skills/invoice-overview) and [Purchase Order skills](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/po-skills/purchase-order-overview) |
| Expense management | [Receipt skills](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/receipt-skills/receipt-overview) and the [Expense Management skill](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/expense-management) |
| Tax and financial forms | [Form skills](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/form-skills/1040-overview) for the IRS 1040, 1099, W-2, and W-8 series |
| Logistics and shipping | [Bill of Lading](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/bill-of-lading), Air Waybill, CMR, and Delivery Note skills |
| Mailroom automation | [Classification skills](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/classification-skills) that route each document to the skill that extracts it |
| Identity verification and KYC | The [Know Your Customer agent](/vantage/connectors/ibm-watsonx-orchestrate/kyc-agent) built on IBM watsonx Orchestrate |
| Contracts and other free-form text | [Advanced Designer](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/introduction) with NLP activities for unstructured documents |

<Tip>
  Browse the [ABBYY Marketplace](https://www.abbyy.com/marketplace/) for more skills and connectors from ABBYY and its partners.
</Tip>

## Why teams use Vantage

* **Pre-trained skills** – Over 100 [built-in skills](/vantage/documentation/skill-catalog/built-in-skills/built-in-skills) cover common document types, with extraction fields and validation rules already configured.
* **Two design tools** – Build most skills in the browser with [Skill Designer](/vantage/documentation/skill-designer/skill-designer), and use the desktop [Advanced Designer](/vantage/documentation/advanced-designer/introduction) when a skill needs scripting or many varying layouts.
* **Human in the loop** – Operators verify and correct low-confidence fields in [Manual Review](/vantage/documentation/runtime/manual-review/manual-review) before the data moves downstream.
* **Continuous learning** – [Online learning](/vantage/documentation/runtime/online-learning/online-learning) feeds those corrections back into the skill, so accuracy improves as you process more documents.
* **Broad input coverage** – PDFs, images, and Office documents in [203 recognition languages](/vantage/documentation/tenant-admin/technical-specs/languages), covering printed and handwritten text in any combination.
* **Built for integration** – A REST API for custom applications, plus ready-made connectors for automation platforms and AI agents.

## Cloud and self-hosted deployment

Vantage runs in two forms, and these Getting Started pages document the cloud service.

* **Vantage Cloud** – The multi-tenant SaaS platform hosted and operated by ABBYY. Start with the [quickstart](/vantage/getting-started/overview).
* **Vantage self-hosted** – A customer-hosted deployment on your own Kubernetes infrastructure, for full control over data residency and compliance. See [ABBYY Vantage 3.0 self-hosted](/vantage/self-hosted/v3.0/introduction).