Amazon Mechanical Turk Getting Started Guide
This guide is deprecated. To get started using Mechanical Turk, we recommend you use the Amazon Mechanical Turk Developer Guide.
This is the Amazon Mechanical Turk Getting Started Guide. This guide provides a conceptual overview of Amazon Mechanical Turk for developers who want to write scripts or software applications using the Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester API. The major sections of this guide are described in the following table. For information on using a graphical user interface to access Amazon Mechanical Turk functionality, go to the Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester User Interface Guide.
Amazon Mechanical Turk is a web service that provides an on-demand, scalable, human
workforce to complete
jobs that humans can do better than computers, such as recognizing objects in photographs.
For more information about this product, go to the Amazon Mechanical Turk website
How Do I...?
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Get a general product overview of Mechanical Turk |
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Set up the accounts and tools needed to use Mechanical Turk |
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Use the Mechanical Turk SDKs to write and publish a Human Intelligence Task (HIT) |
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Learn more about implementing Mechanical Turk |
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Find answers to common questions about Mechanical Turk |
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Learn more about programmatically interacting with Mechanical Turk |
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Find detailed information about Mechanical Turk operations |
