Developing AI-enabled database system for technical documents

It has been announced that Showa Denko and Cinnamon will jointly develop a database system equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) to register technical documents. This development program has been accredited as a project to be subsidized by the New Energy and Technology Development Organization (NEDO) as a part of NEDO's'Program to Support Joint Development of AI Systems'. Technical documents accumulated by Japan's manufacturing industry contain a massive amount of knowledge. However, most of those documents are stored as data on paper. Showa Denko believes that if we want to make the most of pre-existing technical knowledge and utilize it as a source of new value, we should convert'analog data' into'digital data' and store it on electronic databases. It is difficult to manually convert massive amounts of paper based data.