Artificial intelligence system to classify electronic documents

A computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer readable program storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media to perform operations comprising:
• facilitating one or more computer processes by automatically classifying, by an artificial intelligence system, electronic documents, the classifying comprising for an electronic document of the electronic documents:
• scanning, by the artificial intelligence system, the electronic document to generate electronic document layout data;
• identifying, via data analysis of the electronic document layout data, document layout features of the electronic document;
• automatically selecting, by the artificial intelligence system based on layout features of a particular document type, one or more document layout features of the identified document layout features of the electronic document;
• generating, by the artificial intelligence system, respective natural language electronic feature descriptions that describe spatial layout characteristics of the one or more selected document layout features separate from textual content of the electronic document;
• and
• classifying, by the artificial intelligence system, the electronic document as the particular document type based on computing a similarity comparison between the generated respective natural language electronic feature descriptions and a set of predefined electronic feature descriptions for the particular document type using a natural language processing similarity metric, wherein classifying the electronic document as the particular document type is based on the similarity comparison exceeding a specified matching threshold.

A computer system comprising:

• a processor set;
• one or more computer-readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable storage media to cause the processor set to perform operations comprising:
• facilitating one or more computer processes by automatically classifying, by an artificial intelligence system, electronic documents, the classifying comprising for an electronic document of the electronic documents:
• scanning, by the artificial intelligence system, the electronic document to generate electronic document layout data;
• identifying, via data analysis of the electronic document layout data, document layout features of the electronic document;
• automatically selecting, by the artificial intelligence system based on layout features of a particular document type, one or more document layout features of the identified document layout features of the electronic document;
• generating, by the artificial intelligence system, respective natural language electronic feature descriptions that describe spatial layout characteristics of the one or more selected document layout features separate from textual content of the electronic document;
• and
• classifying, by the artificial intelligence system, the electronic document as the particular document type based on computing a similarity comparison between the generated respective natural language electronic feature descriptions and a set of predefined electronic feature descriptions for the particular document type using a natural language processing similarity metric, wherein classifying the electronic document as the particular document type is based on the similarity comparison exceeding a specified matching threshold.