# Utility Models Overview

## What is a Utility Model?

A **Utility Model** in the Mindee platform is a type of [model](https://docs.mindee.com/models/models-overview) designed to perform document analysis, or to preprocess documents in a data extraction workflow.

Each utility model is its own independent product, we only group them together to signal that their use is different from [extraction-models](https://docs.mindee.com/extraction-models "mention").

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Utility Models are currently in Beta.

To see available integrations, check the model's "Documentation" page on the Mindee Platform.
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## Create a Utility Model <a href="#creating-from-scratch" id="creating-from-scratch"></a>

From the Mindee Platform main page, click on **"Create your document AI model".**

Then scroll down to the "**Document utilities**" section, and finally click on the utility you want.

A creation dialog will appear, allowing you to set initial an configuration for the model.

More information is available for each model type:

* [split](https://docs.mindee.com/utility-models/split "mention") ⇒ find documents in a multi-page file
* [crop](https://docs.mindee.com/utility-models/crop "mention") ⇒ find documents on a single page
* [classification](https://docs.mindee.com/utility-models/classification "mention") ⇒ identify file contents&#x20;
* [ocr](https://docs.mindee.com/utility-models/ocr "mention")⇒ structured text extraction