# Semantic filter

Available in...

* Cloud API Services Platform
* Cloud Big Data
* Cloud Big Data Platform
* Cloud Data Fabric
* Cloud Data Integration
* Cloud Data Management Platform
* Cloud Pipeline Designer Standard Edition
* Data Fabric

Filters fields based on compliance with semantic rules, splits them, and passes the separated data to the next step of the pipeline.

The Semantic filter processor uses different operators to filter on the semantic types of your fields. This processor uses [the avpath syntax](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/Cloud/pipeline-designer-user-guide/avpath).

### In this section

* [Semantic filter properties](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/pipeline-designer-processors-guide/Cloud/semantic-filter-properties)
* [Filtering customer data based on valid and invalid semantic types](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/pipeline-designer-processors-guide/Cloud/filtering-customer-data-based-on-valid-and-invalid-semantic-types)