Is ABBYY FlexiCapture discontinued?

No. As of October 2026 ABBYY lists FlexiCapture and FlexiCapture for Invoices among its intelligent document processing products, next to ABBYY Vantage, its cloud-first platform. Neither page we checked labels FlexiCapture as retired.

What is the difference between FlexiCapture and ABBYY Vantage?

ABBYY describes FlexiCapture as enterprise document automation available on premises or as an SDK, and Vantage as a cloud-first intelligent document processing platform. If you are weighing a move between them, ABBYY or your ABBYY partner can tell you what fits your setup.

Does CapturePoint 6 need Document Definitions or FlexiLayouts?

No. You point automatic setup at a folder of sample documents and it finds the document types, fields and tables. You correct what it gets wrong in review, and the job learns from those corrections.

Does CapturePoint 6 need a server?

No. It is a Windows 10 or 11 application that runs on the PC next to your scanner. Reading and extraction happen on that PC, with or without a graphics card. Each additional scanning PC is its own station, and a job can be copied to another station with Download job setup and Import job setup.

Can CapturePoint 6 read handwriting?

We do not promise handwriting recognition. If handwritten forms are a large part of your work, test them in the free trial on your own documents before you decide, or keep a tool built for handwritten forms.

What does CapturePoint 6 cost?

CapturePoint 6 is priced per scanning station, with unlimited scanning. Tell us about your setup on the pricing page and we will send pricing that fits, or book a free live demo and we will walk you through it.

ABBYY FlexiCapture Alternative for Windows PCs

What FlexiCapture is today

From ABBYY's own product pages and documentation, as of October 2026:

ABBYY calls FlexiCapture document automation software purpose-built for the enterprise. It is available on premises, installed in your own infrastructure, or as an SDK for building your own applications.
It classifies documents, extracts data and validates it, for structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents, including handwritten text recognition and natural language processing for contracts.
ABBYY says it can scale to more than 3 million documents a day.
The distributed version runs an Application Server (a web service in IIS), a Database Server, a Processing Server that spreads work across processing stations, and a Licensing Server with a protection key activated through ABBYY.
ABBYY also lists FlexiCapture for Invoices and ABBYY Vantage, a cloud-first intelligent document processing platform, among its products. FlexiCapture is not marked as retired.

In short, FlexiCapture is a serious platform built for serious volume. The question is whether your team is using what it was built for.

Side by side

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	ABBYY FlexiCapture	CapturePoint 6
Where it runs	On premises in your infrastructure (standalone or distributed), or as an SDK	One Windows 10 or 11 PC, 64-bit; no server to install
Building a new document type	An administrator creates a Document Definition; semi-structured layouts can be described in FlexiLayout Studio or trained from sample batches	Automatic setup from a folder of samples; corrections in review teach the job
What it reads	Structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents, including handwriting	Document types, fields and line-item tables, with a check that line amounts add up
Built for	Enterprise-scale automation; ABBYY cites more than 3 million documents a day	A department or small business scanning on its own PCs, priced per scanning station

ABBYY facts are from abbyy.com and ABBYY's FlexiCapture 12 help (see sources). Ask ABBYY or your partner about the features and licensing that apply to you.

Who should stay, who should look

Stay with FlexiCapture if

You process very high volumes across many processing stations.
Handwritten forms or long unstructured documents such as contracts are central to your work.
Developers have built your own applications on the FlexiCapture SDK.
You have an administrator or ABBYY partner who maintains your projects and Document Definitions.

CapturePoint 6 fits if

Capture happens on one or a few PCs, without servers to look after.
Your project was built by an integrator and new document types wait for their next visit.
Your documents are mostly typed business paper: invoices, purchase orders, bills of lading, claims, HR forms.
You want reading to happen on your own PC, with files going to folders, SharePoint, Google Drive or Content Central.

Setting up a new document type

In FlexiCapture, documents are processed according to Document Definitions. ABBYY's help describes two ways to locate fields on documents whose layout varies. FlexiLayout Studio lets a specialist write a formal description of the layout, and field extraction training lets an administrator load sample images per document type, mark field positions, and test the result. Both give precise control. Both are also work for a trained person.

CapturePoint 6 starts from the documents themselves. You choose a folder of real examples and it reads them, finds where each document starts and ends, groups pages into document types, and suggests fields and tables. Nobody draws zones.

CapturePoint 6 automatic setup reading a folder of sample documents, 46 of 126 pages read, next step: finding where each document starts and ends — Automatic setup reading a folder of samples. Next it finds where each document starts and ends; barcodes and separator sheets count too.

CapturePoint 6 Job setup for Accounts Payable listing six document types it found: Invoice, Purchase order, Statement, Remittance advice, W-9 and Credit memo, each with its fields — Six document types found in one accounts payable folder, with field counts and how often each is read without review.

After that, the job learns while you work. Each document you confirm becomes a verified answer, and CapturePoint 6 only adopts a change in how it reads when it measures better against those answers. It also notices new document types and new fields and suggests them, with the evidence.

Checks before anything leaves

Every serious capture tool needs a way to stop bad values reaching your accounting system. In CapturePoint 6 that happens on the review screen:

Each field shows why it is waiting for review, if it is.
Line-item tables are checked: when quantity times unit price does not match the amount, the line is flagged.
Lookup lists, such as your vendor list, can check and fill values.
You set how sure it must be before a document skips review, per job.

CapturePoint 6 line-item table where line 1 reads 4 at 35.00 as 141.00, flagged with Check amount and the note: Line 1 does not add up. Correct it, or mark it right as printed. — Line 1 was read as 4 × 35.00 = 141.00. It does not add up, so CapturePoint 6 asks you to correct it or mark it right as printed.

For a fuller list of what to check on invoices:

Invoice line-item extraction: getting every row of the table out cleanly.
Invoice OCR and data extraction: fields, accuracy checks and how to evaluate a tool.

How to run a fair test

Any capture product looks good on its own demo documents. Test both on yours.

01
Write down your current project
Document types, required fields per type, any lookups or validation rules, and where each document is exported.
02
Pick a hard sample
A few weeks of real documents, including new vendors, multi-page invoices, poor copies and the forms people complain about.
03
Set up CapturePoint 6 from it
Install the free trial on a Windows 10 or 11 PC. It starts on first launch with no form. Point automatic setup at the folder.
04
Measure review, not just accuracy
Count how many documents a person had to touch, and how long that took, on a live batch from your scanner.
05
Check the handoff
Confirm each destination is covered. If a system can read a folder of PDFs with a data file, it can take CapturePoint 6 output. For anything else, book a demo and we will look at it with you.

Where these facts come from

Everything this page says about another company's product comes from these pages, checked in October 2026. Products change; if something here is out of date, the vendor's page wins.

Product names are trademarks of their owners. Ademero is not affiliated with Tungsten Automation or ABBYY.

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