n the information age, journalists face a vast amount of information from myriad sources, and the challenges lie in their ability to search and efficiently navigate the vast data to extract what is required of it.

Technological advances associated with artificial intelligence have become an indispensable aid and ally for journalists, providing sophisticated tools to enhance audiovisual media research, data analysis and extraction from audio and video archives and PDF documents.

In this article, we have prepared for you many applications that help journalists use artificial intelligence to facilitate their search process, where they can by mastering these techniques, save time and effort, improve accuracy, focus on formulating attractive stories and excel in their field, by possessing effective tools that enable them to search, analyze and extract valuable information accurately and quickly.

Visual search in archives

Artificial intelligence is witnessing significant advances in visual search capabilities, especially within digital archives.

Here are some apps journalists can use to leverage AI:

Clarifai

This platform offers powerful visual recognition capabilities, image and video content classification, and journalists can use it to efficiently find specific media files.

 Evernote

Despite being primarily known for taking notes, Evernote also uses artificial intelligence to search for text within images, allowing journalists to quickly identify notes or information.

Evernote helps you search for text in PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, images, presentations, and scanned documents instantly, and can search handwritten text in images attached to notes.

Search and analyze documents and PDFs

PDFs and other documents contain important information for journalists that must be analyzed and used in their topics, and AI can simplify this process with several tools:

Unriddle.AI

This AI tool creates a helper on any document, allowing users to quickly find, summarize, and understand information.

Unriddle.AI understands the context behind your writing and automatically connects you to previous relevant content you've read or written.

HiPDF

This AI-powered software reads, summarizes, explains PDFs, chat, converts, edits and merges texts, and AI chat helps you search PDFs, summarize, read and explain information.

It can also convert and edit the file, merge, add to and edit information.

Scribd

This app gives access to a huge library of books and documents and is useful for searching digital archives.

Adobe Acrobat features advanced AI-powered search functions, enabling journalists to easily find keywords and phrases within PDF documents.

ABBYY FineReader

Optical character recognition (OCR) tool that converts scanned documents and images into searchable PDF files, making it easier to identify and reference information.

Smallpdf

It offers a range of tools including a PDF reader that can summarize and extract key points from documents, guided by artificial intelligence.

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Search video and audio content

Journalists often work with video and audio recordings, which can take a long time to review. Artificial intelligence in many applications simplifies this task, and we have selected for you some of them:

 Descript:

It transcribes audio and video files, allowing journalists to search for specific words or phrases within the written text.

You can use it to search, edit, copy, edit, edit, etc. videos and texts.

 Sonix

An AI-powered service that provides audio and video content search services, helps journalists search audio or video content, and provides simultaneous content translation.

Clipy  

Allows you to search videos using the meaning of your words, rather than just keywords. It enables you to search videos in any language available in your files.

Canto

Powered by artificial intelligence for visual archives, this application enables us to find very specific things within photos or videos.

It helps to discover all visual assets, not just those that contain text metadata, and contains a natural language understanding tool.

Canto's Visual Search Pro searches for millions of minutes of videos, displays a clip that shows the user exactly what they are looking for, and not only can the clip be found, but also takes the user to the exact moment in seconds.

Audio content

audioFlux

A deep educational library for audio and music analysis, supporting time frequency analysis and pattern recognition, signal processing, feature extraction, information retrieval, and hundreds of times and frequency domain features.

Sound Decisions

The manual includes sound analysis tools such as sound gauges, oselloscopes and spectrograms.

HOME CITY CITY

Free online tool to analyze audio files.

ieeexplore. ieee.

This application analyzes audio content and retrieves information.

Easy peasy.ai

With AI-powered audio transcription, you can transcribe audio content quickly and accurately, and even create detailed summaries, descriptions, and notes to help you manage and promote content.

Press Experiences

There is no doubt that the use of artificial intelligence in journalism has brought about a major transformation in the way journalists work, and Lebanese journalist Nazik Nasr says: "With the development of artificial intelligence, it will be necessary for journalists to stay up to date with the latest technologies to commit to excellence in their field, and in my personal experience the use of artificial intelligence applications has helped me speed up the process of searching, analyzing and proofreading a huge amount of documents and information sources, and in particular the Descript application and visual search pro allowed me more time to focus on writing. Content analysis, thanks to other apps like Clarifai, is able to find the required images and videos very quickly, improving the quality of my reports."

She explained that the integration of artificial intelligence technologies into modern journalism practices contributes to improving efficiency and accuracy, and also enhances the ability of journalists to provide rich and reliable content, "As technology continues to develop, it will be necessary for journalists to adopt these tools and stay up to date with the latest innovations and keep abreast of everything new, and I was able to develop my business using many AI-based search applications."

Ali al-Ibrahim, an investigative journalist and founder of the Syrian Unit for Investigative Journalism, said Siraj. He teaches a master's degree in artificial intelligence at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom: "Artificial intelligence tools are often seen as a poisoned cup for journalists, especially those related to image and content generators because of the problems related to ethics and copyright, in addition to being at times unreliable to provide biased results, but artificial intelligence tools should not be summarized in the above, as auxiliary tools are available for journalistic and investigative projects, capable of enhancing data efficiency, topic briefings, and saving costs. These tools facilitate tasks in research, analysis and accurate verification of information, which contributes to improving the efficiency and quality of journalists' work, and enhancing their ability to adapt to the rapid changes in the journalistic field."

Al-Ibrahim uses a number of artificial intelligence tools during his work, and these tools help him in deep search, text analysis, and submission of abstracts, "Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic are among the most prominent artificial intelligence tools used in research, as they rely on advanced algorithms to search in huge databases and provide accurate and reliable information about the topics that are being worked on, and there are tools such as Semantic Scholar that use artificial intelligence to analyze texts and provide useful summaries to journalists."