# Create a project

> Create a Document Understanding project in Automation Suite, including steps for naming the project, selecting an OCR engine, and configuring advanced options.

Follow the instructions from this page to create your first Document Understanding<sup>TM</sup> project.

1. Open **Document Understanding**.
2. Select **Create project**.
3. Fill in the desired project name.
4. Configure **Advanced options** if needed.
   1. Select the OCR you want to use for your new project from the **OCR method** drop-down list.
   2. Fill in the **OCR API Key**.
      :::note
      This field is filled in automatically if you select a UiPath® OCR.
      :::
   3. Choose if you want to **Apply OCR on PDFs**. This is set to **Auto** by default.
5. Select **Create**.

   Figure 1. Creating your first project

   ![Screenshot of the Create project interface.](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/document-understanding/document-understanding-screenshot-of-the-create-project-interface-397070-d54aa464-30277f99.webp)

After you create your new project, you can open it by selecting it from the **Projects** list.

![Screenshot of the Projects list interface.](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/document-understanding/document-understanding-screenshot-of-the-projects-list-interface-497122-0bc07de6-347b370e.webp)

## Configure project settings

You can edit or configure additional project settings after you created the project.

To do this, open your project and select **Project settings** on the bottom-left corner of the screen.

Figure 2. Additional project settings

![Screenshot of the Project settings interface.](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/document-understanding/document-understanding-screenshot-of-the-project-settings-interface-396612-046ba178-a316c8f0.webp)

You can configure the following additional project settings:

* **Name**: The name of the project.
* **Description**: Optionally, you can provide more details about the project.
* **OCR method**: Select the OCR method for the project from the drop-down list.
* **OCR API Key**: Provide the API key for the chosen API. This field is populated automatically if you selected a UiPath OCR.
* **OCR URL**: Provide the OCR URL corresponding to the chosen OCR method. For the full list of URLs for UiPath OCRs, check the [Public Endpoints](https://docs.uipath.com/document-understanding/automation-suite/2024.10/user-guide/public-endpoints#public-endpoints) page.
* **Apply OCR on PDFs**: Establishes if the OCR process should be applied or not to PDF documents. If set to **Yes**, the OCR is applied to all PDF pages of the document. If set to **No**, the OCR is not applied to any pages and returns only the text embedded in the PDF. When set to **Auto** OCR applies only to the scanned pages of the document. The default value is **Auto**.