There are four Python programs implementing different information extraction methods. The programs have a graphical user interface, but using the current prototype version of the software requires the skills to modify Python code.

Three of the programs are intended to be used in sequence, first to search pages that contain combinations of user-specified keywords, second to cluster the found pages by similarity in an unsupervised clustering approach, and third to classify pages based on similarity to model pages. The model pages can be either based on the unsupervised clustering results or specified by the user. The fourth program is not part of the sequence and can be used independently: it implements a binary relevancy classification method based on a neural network.

Usage and installation instructions are included in the distributed package. Ship engine documents are not included – the user must provide the PDF files to be searched. Training the neural network method is supervised learning and requires the user to specify the relevant pages in a set of PDF files that are used as training data.

The VesselAI project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 957237.