# Archive Intelligence ## Archive Intelligence Many organisations hold archive and heritage collections of real beauty and historical importance. Photographs, letters, maps, ledgers, manuscripts and records that deserve to be preserved, published and made accessible to researchers, communities and the public. But for many collection holders, that ambition runs into a familiar obstacle: cataloguing. Material that is under-catalogued or not catalogued at all cannot easily be searched, shared or understood. And cataloguing takes time, specialist knowledge, consistent standards and resources that many organisations simply do not have. In some cases, the cataloguing backlog becomes a bottleneck that delays an entire project for months or years. In others, it brings progress to a halt altogether. Archive Intelligence uses AI to help break that bottleneck. Working directly from digitised images, our technology can read, analyse and extract structured information from a wide range of archive material, including handwritten documents, without the need for a separate OCR stage. The result is a detailed, structured first pass of catalogue data that gives your team a valuable head start. Every piece of information we extract can be traced directly back to the source document, so you always know exactly where it came from. The aim is not to replace archivists, researchers or collection holders. It is to give them a valuable head start, reducing repetitive manual work and allowing their time and knowledge to be used where it matters most. Clients remain in control. Information can be reviewed, refined and approved before it is published, and users can be directed back to the original source material. Every collection is different, so the information extracted can be tailored to the client's needs. Clients can choose the data fields that matter to them, such as names, dates, locations, organisations, document types, subjects or collection-specific information. We can work with them to define the required outputs before processing begins. Ask questions of your collection in plain English. Archive Assistance is a conversational AI tool that lets users explore an archive naturally, without needing to know the right keyword, reference number or spelling variation. Rather than searching for a term and hoping it matches the language used by the original cataloguer, users can ask a question as they would ask a person and receive a sourced, accurate answer drawn directly from the collection. Responses are linked back to the original source material, so users can explore further, verify what they have found and cite their sources with confidence. Give every document a clear, consistent title automatically. For collections where items are untitled, inconsistently described or have never been formally catalogued, Auto Title Generation provides a practical and scalable starting point. Our AI reads each item and generates an accurate, descriptive title based on its content, bringing structure and consistency to collections of any size. Titles can be reviewed and edited by your team before publication, ensuring the final output meets your standards and fits your catalogue conventions. Turn unstructured archive material into searchable, structured data. Metadata and Tagging allows clients to define the fields that matter most to their collection, whether that is names, dates, locations, organisations, document types, subject tags or something more specific to their holdings. Our AI works through the material systematically, extracting and generating structured data to those specifications. The output can be delivered in formats compatible with your catalogue system, heritage platform or web portal, giving you clean, consistent data that is ready to use and ready to publish. Make the written content of your documents readable, searchable and accessible. Our transcription service converts both typed and handwritten material into accurate text, opening up collections to full-text search, research and wider public access. This is particularly valuable for collections where the content of documents is as important as their existence, such as correspondence, diaries, ledgers or administrative records. As with all our AI outputs, transcriptions can be reviewed and approved by your team before use, ensuring accuracy and consistency across the collection. --- **Request a quote:** https://microform.digital/contact **Phone:** +44 (0)330 053 6300 **Email:** info@microform.digital