Python Automation Cookbook - Second Edition

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Machine Learning for Automation

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Analyzing images with Google Cloud Vision AI
• Extracting text from images with Google Cloud Vision AI
• Analyzing text with Google Cloud Natural Language
• Creating your own custom machine learning model to classify text

Introduction

Machine learning is a technique that allows systems to be trained to recognize patterns without explicitly describing these patterns. The basis of machine learning is the creation and training of a model, a system that is prepared with training data and then can automatically process new data that is similar to the training data. The model learns from the training data.

For example, a traditional method to detect spam in emails ...