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The categorize node uses VLM to classify documents into one of your predefined categories, enabling conditional routing in flows.

Basic Usage

Configuration Options

Options Reference

Output

The categorize node outputs:

Conditional Routing

The main use case for categorize is routing documents to different extraction schemas:

Custom Instructions

Provide guidance for categorization:

With Parsed Documents

Categorize works with both raw documents and parsed DocumentIR:

Consensus Voting

Improve classification accuracy with multiple runs:

Extended Reasoning

Enable for documents that are difficult to classify:

Example: Multi-Type Document Processing

Next Steps

extract

Extract data after categorization

Flows

Learn about conditional routing