## Filter Beans

The Able Filter bean provides template-based translation and scaling of data.

Filter beans are used between other AbleBeans to translate data. They accept data from an input data connection, process it, and pass the results to the output data connection for further processing. The most common use of a Filter bean is to translate symbolic data into numeric data for presentation to a neural network bean.

A Filter bean can also change the numeric neural network output back into symbolic form for display or to pass to an Export bean.

Filter beans can use a translate template created with the Filter Editor.