My use case is that I want to be classify documents into one of several categories, then depending on the category, extract certain fields from it. My question is for this kind of use case, what exactly is the difference between using AI Skills to do this versus using AI Doc Center? Looking around, I see some people saying AI Doc Center uses more tokens and that it can handle more complex cases, but I can't see anything in documentation about if that's actually true or not, and anything about when you'd want to use one or the other. I've been in loops reading the same page over and over again, so at this point I might have missed something, but if someone's able to help point me towards an answer, that would be most appreciated!
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AI Skills are the runtime objects. You build them directly pick classification or extraction, train or prompt them, and call them from a process via smart services like Classify Document and Extract from Document.Doc Center is not a separate engine. It's an application that generates and maintains those same AI skill objects and their process models for you, then layers on versioning, reconciliation, accuracy metrics, token monitoring, and deployment.Both end up as AI skill objects at runtime. The choice is whether you build and manage the AI skill yourself, or let Doc Center generate it and give you versioning and accuracy metrics. Doc Center's models are gen-AI backed (tokens, better on varied layouts); an AI skill you build directly can be trained ML: no tokens, but needs consistent layouts and retraining.
Where exactly can you monitor tokens for Doc Center? In Doc Center, I can see Home, Classification, Extraction, Deployment, Documentation tabs on the left side, but nothing about token monitoring?
Also, where in the documentation does it say that AI Skills use no tokens? Want to just have a link as reference
Use MyAppian -> Adoption -> AI Usage Metrics usage to see AI Action consumption by feature across environments.Also from 26.6 in logs also :- https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/26.6/Logging.html#ai-usage-logs
Hi Shubham, I can see input/output token usage for unstructured doc extraction ai skills and for doc center, but i don't see it for something like structured doc extraction ai skill. Do you know how I can view that?
Structured doc extraction is ML based so it does not consume tokens, it is metered in AI Actions instead (https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/26.5/estimate-token-usage.html).