Getting Started

Welcome to Extend! This guide provides an overview of the Extend platform and walks you through the initial steps to get you up and running with creating, configuring, and utilizing your first AI document processor and workflow.

What is Extend?

Extend is your platform for building, iterating on, evaluating, and deploying AI-powered document processing infrastructure. We support a variety of tasks like classification, extraction, and document splitting. These tasks are performed by Processors, which can then be orchestrated within Workflows to handle your document processing use cases.

Core Concepts

Before diving in, let’s familiarize ourselves with a few key concepts:

• Processors: These are the AI engines you build in Extend. The type we’ll set up in this guide is an Extractor, which pulls specific information from your documents.
• Workflows: These are where you deploy and orchestrate your published processors to process documents according to your specific needs.
• Evaluation Sets: These are sets of documents paired with their expected output that you use to evaluate the performance of your processors.

Next Steps

Head over to the next page to get started by creating and configuring your first Extractor.