Hi everyone,
I have a challenge where I need to classify more than 10 different types of documents. I understand that the traditional Classify Document approach in Appian requires a substantial amount of training data to build an accurate model.
Is it possible to use generative AI (Gen-AI) for document classification in Appian instead? Or is Gen-AI generally not suitable for handling multiple document types like this?
I’m aware that the current Appian AI Skills for document classification do not use Gen-AI, but I wanted to check if there are any alternative approaches or best practices. I also tried using extraction with unstructured Gen-AI for classification, but it turned out to be more complex than I expected—especially converting the output to JSON and so on.
Thanks for any advice or suggestions!ps; currently lacks of documents so i not using the classification document method xD
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Hi Abdul,
Have you tried using the AI Document Center? It has a classification module that allows you to categorize documents using GenAI. This would be an ideal use case for that: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.2/aidc-2.8/classification.html. I do, however, recommend gathering a good dataset of different document types so that you can cover edge cases but this should be help you get started.