Extract: Using AI to unlock historic planning data
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Jenny Colebourn, Senior Product Manager (Planning Data & AI), Steve Messer, Product and Design Strategist and Gavin Edwards, Principal AI Engineer, Incubator for Artificial Intelligence, Posted on:
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Categories:
Artificial Intelligence, Data, Digital Planning

This week, the Prime Minister officially launched Extract, the AI tool which the Digital Planning programme in MHCLG and the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence are developing to transform decades of planning information trapped in paper maps and PDFs into usable digital data.
This technology will significantly reduce the time required to digitise documents from hours to minutes, freeing planning officers up to focus on applications rather than data management.