OXFORD, UK and BOSTON, MA – 08/02/2026 – () – With digital archives expanding at an extraordinary rate, Preservica has unveiled a new suite of embedded AI features aimed at integrating intelligent support into everyday archival and records management tasks. The organization has launched unified, user-focused AI utilities together with adaptable AI Credits throughout its product range, allowing institutions to implement artificial intelligence securely and scale its application according to operational needs.
This enhanced AI solution mirrors a wider transformation within the archival community, as organizations search for effective methods to tackle growing backlogs, escalating compliance mandates, and heightened demands for accessibility and discovery. By incorporating AI seamlessly into current workflows, Preservica seeks to eliminate the inefficiencies commonly linked with separate applications and deliver sophisticated functionality to groups of any scale.
Preservica’s product executives note that these new utilities were created through intensive partnership with clients and polished via the firm’s AI Workshop initiative. The outcome is a collection of features that augment current preservation and accessibility operations while assisting archives, records, and information management professionals throughout public sector, educational, and business settings.
These new AI-powered capabilities enable activities like handling audiovisual content, normalizing metadata, and improving image libraries to be finished in significantly less time than before. Processes that previously required days or weeks of hands-on labor can now be completed within hours or minutes, permitting specialists to concentrate more on curation, investigation, and strategic planning. Sophisticated features such as AI-generated summarization and semantic search additionally broaden the ways users engage with and derive benefit from permanent digital repositories.
Preservica has built its AI strategy on principles of openness, governance, and compliance adherence. The AI utilities are completely woven into the current system, backed by comprehensive audit records and management controls that let institutions decide precisely where and how AI is utilized. Customers can deactivate or restrict AI deployment to particular collections, and premium versions also furnish protected APIs for entities wishing to utilize proprietary AI systems.
The newly introduced features include utilities for rapidly detecting personally identifiable information to meet privacy and open data regulations, integrated optical character recognition to enhance discoverability of digitized documents, automatic transcription and subtitling of multimedia resources, bulk image classification, and semantic search facilitating purpose-driven exploration and audit readiness. Feature accessibility differs by product version, with specifics available through Preservica’s pricing documentation.
Early-stage AI utilities, encompassing PII recognition and OCR, are presently accessible to clients, underpinned by the innovative AI Credits system that synchronizes consumption with requirements. Further AI-enabled functionalities, including automatic evaluation, migration of content from SharePoint, and enhanced exploration interfaces driven by Microsoft Copilot, are presently under construction.