# Intelligent Form Extractor

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The Intelligent Form Extracor activity is [deprecated](https://docs.uipath.com/overview/other/latest/overview/deprecation-timeline#deprecated-features-or-capabilities). Please use the [Form Extractor](https://docs.uipath.com/activities/other/latest/document-understanding/form-extractor) activity instead, which now contains all the Intelligent Form Extractor features.
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## What is Intelligent Form Extractor

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The Intelligent Form Extracor activity is [deprecated](https://docs.uipath.com/overview/other/latest/overview/deprecation-timeline#deprecated-features-or-capabilities). Please use the [Form Extractor](https://docs.uipath.com/activities/other/latest/document-understanding/form-extractor) activity instead, which now contains all the Intelligent Form Extractor features.
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The **Intelligent Form Extractor** is a specialized tool for processing fixed-layout documents for data extraction. You can use it to processing all types of forms that are printed or handwritten. You can also use it to check whether the form is signed or not.

This extractor does not have learning (training) capabilities and requires up-front configuration.

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More related information about **Intelligent Form Extractor**:
* [Intelligent Form Extractor](https://docs.uipath.com/activities/other/latest/document-understanding/intelligent-form-extractor) activity page
* [Taxonomy Manager](https://docs.uipath.com/document-understanding/automation-suite/2023.10/classic-user-guide/taxonomy-manager#taxonomy-manager) - setup instructions
* [Template Manager wizard](https://docs.uipath.com/document-understanding/automation-suite/2023.10/classic-user-guide/intelligent-form-extractor#intelligent-form-extractor) - setup instructions
* [Anchorbased](https://docs.uipath.com/activities/other/latest/document-understanding/anchorbased-data-extraction-using-intelligent-form-extractor) workflow example
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## Special requirements

You need to use your **Automation Cloud<sup>TM</sup> Document Understanding<sup>TM</sup> API Key**, or host your own instance of the **Intelligent Form Extractor** in **AI Center** on-prem, to use this extractor.

## How to configure

### Activity configuration

The **Intelligent Form Extractor** has two major configurations to be considered:

* the **Template Manager** wizard - that allows you to define templates to be applied to incoming documents. This wizard enables the **Template Editor** and the **Boolean field interpretation** settings.
* the **MinOverlapPercentage** setting - that allows you to control how strict the value area matching should be. Accepts a value between 0 and 100, and it controls what words are accepted or rejected from being part of a given value, based on how well their location fits the area defined in the template.