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title: "IDP Features"
slug: "news-712-docuware-idp-features"
tags: ["#version  Cloud", "IDP"]
updated: 2025-11-04T08:05:01Z
published: 2025-11-04T08:05:01Z
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# IDP Features

DocuWare Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) seamlessly extends existing document management solutions with AI-powered features. This enables customers to achieve a higher degree of automation in their office processes, increase efficiency and reduce operating costs.

**Component**: DocuWare IDP

Features

- **Splitting**: Even without separator pages or barcode stickers, automatically divide batch scans into separate documents and ensure consistent further processing of the individual PDFs in company-wide workflows.
- **Classification**: Classification assigns documents to different categories or groups based on their content, properties or characteristics. The respective workflows for each document type can then be started right away.
- **Extraction**: IDP accurately extracts the important data from your documents, even in difficult cases such as complex line items and tables, as well as scans of crumpled or stained documents.
- **Extraction for Handwriting**: Extraction using HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) recognizes handwritten information in scanned documents, which can then be used as index entries for document routing.

Applications

- **Accounts Payable Process**: Increase the level of automation by automatically extracting complex data from invoices and possibly crumpled delivery notes. [Learn more](https://start.docuware.com/blog/product-news/more-automation-processing-incoming-invoices-with-docuware-idp)
- **Mailroom**: Fully digitize and automate your entire mail inbox, whether paper or email based. [Learn more](https://start.docuware.com/blog/product-news/automate-inbox-with-docuware-idp)

Benefits

- Reliable and consistent document classification ensures faster processing.
- High degree of accuracy and streamlined automation regardless of the quality of the scanned paper documents.
- Data from complex tables on delivery notes, etc. can be used immediately for further document processing.

Here's how

DocuWare IDP can be used in combination with both DocuWare Cloud and a DocuWare on-premises system. Various IDP packages are available to meet the needs of IDP functions.

There are several ways to integrate IDP functions into DocuWare:

- via Workflow Manager: classification, extraction incl. handwriting
- via StorageRobot: splitting, classification, extraction incl. handwriting (but no extraction of individual items for transfer to DocuWare table fields)
- via [Connect to Mail and IDP](/help/docs/news-712-use-idp-in-email-capturing) configuration: classification, extraction incl. handwriting (only with DocuWare Cloud)

You also have the choice of which type of AI model you want to start with:

- **Pre-Built**: Models come pre-configured with established structures, defining the data fields they extract or the classes they classify.
- **Fine-Tune Pre-Built**: If the pre-built model performance is not optimal for your specific data, you can fine-tune the model by providing it with more specific data.
- **Build Your Own Mode**l: You can provide the data for your unique case to enhance performance where a pre-built model might not yet meet the standards for specific document process.

## Supported versions: DocuWare Cloud