Scanned PDFs and AI Search: Fix the Text Before the Chatbot
Before tuning your AI chatbot, check whether your PDFs supply readable text, reliable reading order, usable tables, and passages you can trace to the page.
Before tuning your AI chatbot, check whether your PDFs supply readable text, reliable reading order, usable tables, and passages you can trace to the page.
Before expanding internal AI search, check how permissions survive indexing, retrieval and access changes, with practical tests for staff and client boundaries.
Keep your internal AI assistant's answers current with a practical workflow for approved documents, updates, deletions, permissions and repeatable answer checks.
NIS 2 is generating more supplier questionnaires. A controlled AI assistant can find approved answers and sources—and route uncertain cases for review.
NLWeb makes conversational website search practical to deploy. The real question is whether your content, users and team are ready to support it.
Before launching a support bot, test how withdrawn help articles leave search, caches and answers. A practical deletion checklist for owners and delivery teams.
Make OpenAI File Search reliable for internal knowledge: organise documents, enforce access, test citations, and manage updates, retention and running costs.
Written recommendations from Trafik og Veje, Aarhus Municipality (2011) and AgroTech (2010).