AI Machine Learning
PastView’s AI Machine Learning Tools enhance the way you explore, understand, and unlock value from your digital collections. Using advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), Audio Visual Transcription (AVT), and Facial Recognition, these tools streamline discovery, improve accuracy, and make your content more accessible than ever. PastView gives you complete control over when and where AI is applied within your collections.
Take advantage of our AI Machine Learning tools, to benefit from:

Standardize and enrich metadata in minutes
Quickly appraise and clean up metadata from multiple sources, automatically populate missing fields and resolve inconsistencies so your collections stay accurate, consistent and compliant. This streamlined process helps you clear backlogs faster and maintain high quality standards across your entire archive.

Describe images at scale with AI assistance
Automatically detect people, places, objects and other visual elements within your images to generate rich, descriptive metadata at speed. Instead of starting from scratch, your team can simply refine the AI produced descriptions, saving time while improving the depth and consistency of your image records.

Make audio and video fully searchable and accessible
Transform your media by automatically generating transcripts and captions that improve discovery, searchability and audience engagement. With accessible, timestamped transcripts, you can meet ADA and WCAG requirements while making it easier to navigate, understand and reuse your audio and video content.

Streamline visual workflows and uncover reusable content
Remove near duplicate images to cut unnecessary storage and reduce time spent describing repetitive content, while instantly finding visually similar images across large collections. This helps your teams work faster, support events and social campaigns more effectively and unlock more value from your visual archive.
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Unlock your handwritten collections
Handwritten Text Recognition uses advanced machine learning models to interpret handwritten documents, converting even challenging scripts into accurate, searchable text. This extracted information becomes rich metadata, instantly accessible to your audiences and elevating their search and discovery experience.
Transform printed text into searchable data
Optical Character Recognition captures any typed text found within your images and stores it as a permanent record against each item. This allows users to search the full content of a document, not just specific fields like name, date, or volume. Searches trawl your entire digital collection, compare stored text with the user’s query, and take them directly to the relevant page and highlighted location.

Find the exact point in any recording, instantly
Audio Visual Transcription converts audio and video into searchable text, allowing users to jump straight to the exact moment they need within seconds. Instead of manually scanning through hour long recordings, they can locate specific words, topics, or speakers instantly, transforming how audiovisual content is explored.
Enhance image discovery across your collections
Facial recognition and automated image tagging add structure and insight to your photographic archives. We help you identify repeated individuals and connect related images, making it easier for users to explore and uncover stories within your visual collections.
Prioritize the access & discovery of your digital collections
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