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Re:Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog by skewart on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:27AM (#13694621)
AWS doesn't offer any high-level services for training your own custom model. You'd have to build the neural network yourself and deploy EC2 boxes to run it.

I've had success with Clarifai's [0] custom CV model API in the past. You basically upload batches of labeled images to train a model, and then you can submit new images for classification.

Of course, I have no idea how effective it would be for your documents. Obviously it depends on how visually distinct the different types are.

[0] https://www.clarifai.com

Re:Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog by starik36 on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @11:39AM (#13696836)
Wow, this is literally exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. Hopefully, it works well.

From https://developer.clarifai.com/quick-start/

Seems simple to train

  // add inputs with concepts
  app.inputs.create([{
    "url": "https://samples.clarifai.com/dog1.jpeg",
    "concepts": [
      { "id": "cat", "value": false },
      { "id": "dog", "value": true }
    ]
  }, {
    "url": "https://samples.clarifai.com/dog2.jpeg",
    "concepts": [
      { "id": "cat", "value": false },
      { "id": "dog", "value": true }
    ]

Then you predict what the another image is:

  // predict the contents of an image by passing in a url
  app.models.predict(Clarifai.GENERAL_MODEL,  
      'https://samples.clarifai.com/metro-north.jpg').then(
    function(response) {
      console.log(response);
    },
    function(err) {
      console.error(err);
    }
  );
Re:Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog by skewart on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:17PM (#13700592)
I'm glad I could help! I'd actually be really curious to hear how well it works for you.
Re:Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog by starik36 on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:56PM (#13700973)
I'll post results here once I get permission to bring those docs into the cloud - they are all mostly private.