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Try demoOCR (optical character recognition) extracts text from images and scanned documents, so that photos, scans and image-only PDFs can be searched, edited or read by an AI model.
Classic OCR recognised printed characters one by one. AI-based OCR models read whole pages, including tables, columns, handwriting and mixed layouts, and output clean text or markdown.
Without OCR, a scanned contract or a photo of a receipt is just pixels to a text-only pipeline: it cannot be embedded, searched or quoted.
OCR is especially important for knowledge bases, where many company documents are scans.
Aikeedo can read scanned PDFs and images with OCR providers such as Mistral and Jina, so their text can be used in chat and knowledge bases.
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Multimodal AI is a model or system that works with more than one kind of data, such as text, images, audio and video, in its input, its output or both.
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is a technique where relevant passages are first retrieved from a knowledge base and then given to an AI model with the question, so the answer is grounded in that content.
In AI apps, a knowledge base is the set of documents, pages and files an assistant or chatbot can search and answer from.