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Digital Collections AI: summarizing and indexing Yale’s digitized documents with language models

Yale Library has developed a prototype, “Digital Collections AI,” that submits the OCR text of digitized documents from its collections to language models to produce summaries, lists of people, places and subjects, style analyses and…

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Laptop displaying the Digital Collections AI interface and a list of places extracted from a travel journal
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Update · November 7, 2026

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