Patrivox

Patrivox is a sovereign European SaaS platform that revolutionizes how organizations manage and access historical and archival documents. It is specifically engineered for heritage institutions, municipal archives, historical societies, parishes, and enterprises burdened with large collections of scanned PDFs. The platform's core function is to transform static, unsearchable document archives into a dynamic, intelligent knowledge base. By leveraging advanced AI, including Mistral AI's next-generation Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Named Entity Recognition (NER), Patrivox automatically extracts text, identifies key entities (people, places, organizations, dates), and maps their relationships into an interactive knowledge graph. This process, which takes mere minutes, solves the critical problem of "dark archives"—collections that are digitized but remain functionally inaccessible. The main value proposition is profound: it democratizes access to historical knowledge, enabling instant, full-text search with typo tolerance, natural language questioning, and the discovery of hidden contextual links, thereby saving countless hours of manual labor and unlocking new avenues for research and public engagement.

Next-Generation AI Processing

Patrivox utilizes Mistral AI to provide superior document intelligence. Upon upload, the system performs advanced OCR to accurately extract text from even challenging historical documents. It then automatically applies Named Entity Recognition (NER) to identify and tag key entities such as individuals, locations, and organizations. This dual-layer AI processing forms the foundation for all search and discovery features, transforming raw scans into structured, analyzable data without any manual configuration or data entry required from the user.

Intelligent Search & AI Chat

The platform offers a multi-faceted search experience. Users can perform instant full-text searches across the entire collection with built-in typo tolerance. For more complex inquiries, the integrated AI chat allows users to ask questions in plain language (e.g., "What was discussed about the cathedral renovations in 1830?"). The AI synthesizes information from across the documents and provides concise answers, each meticulously cited with direct links to the source pages, ensuring verifiability and trust in the results.

Interactive Knowledge Graph (Constellation)

This feature visually maps the connections between entities extracted from the documents. Every person, place, and organization becomes a node in an interactive graph, showing how they are interlinked through the archival material. Users can navigate this "constellation" to discover non-obvious relationships and contextual connections that would be nearly impossible to find through manual review, offering unprecedented insight into the social and historical networks within the archives.

Sovereign European Hosting & Security

Patrivox is built with data sovereignty as a core principle. All data is 100% hosted on servers within the European Union, ensuring compliance with strict GDPR regulations by design. The platform includes robust security features such as detailed audit logs and provides flexible, secure sharing options, including unlimited read-only access for researchers or the public, managed by a configurable number of administrators.

Municipal and State Archives

Public archives can digitize and make searchable vast collections of city council deliberations, civil registers, property records, and official correspondence. This transforms public service by enabling citizens, historians, and civil servants to find specific information in seconds, improving transparency and preserving institutional memory for future generations.

Historical and Genealogical Societies

These organizations often manage bulletins, member journals, and specialized documentary collections. Patrivox allows them to index these materials fully, enabling members and the public to search for ancestors, local events, or specific topics across decades of publications, significantly enhancing their research services and community value.

Religious and Parish Archives

Dioceses and parishes can preserve and index fragile historical documents like parish registers, baptismal records, and ecclesiastical correspondence. The platform helps protect these documents from physical handling while making the invaluable genealogical and historical data they contain easily accessible to authorized researchers and community members.

Special Collections Libraries

University libraries and heritage libraries holding special collections of manuscripts, rare books, or personal papers can use Patrivox to create detailed, searchable catalogs. This opens these collections to a wider academic audience, facilitating new research by allowing scholars to perform deep textual and contextual analysis across entire corpora with ease.

How does Patrivox handle data privacy and security?

Patrivox is a GDPR-native platform hosted exclusively on servers within the European Union. This ensures that all document data remains under EU jurisdiction and complies with the bloc's stringent data protection laws. The company implements comprehensive security measures, including encryption and access controls, and provides audit logs for administrators to monitor system activity.

What types of documents can I upload?

The primary supported format is PDF, including scanned images of text. The AI-powered OCR is designed to handle a variety of typefaces and historical prints. There are file size limits per plan (e.g., 250 MB per file on most plans), and the platform supports batch uploads of hundreds of files simultaneously for efficient processing of large collections.

What is an "AI query" in the pricing plans?

An AI query is counted each time a user interacts with the natural language chat feature to ask a question about the document corpus. Standard full-text searches, filtering, and navigating the knowledge graph do not consume AI query credits. This model allows for predictable budgeting while offering powerful AI capabilities.

Can I collaborate and share my archives with others?

Yes, a key feature of Patrivox is its collaborative sharing model. All pricing plans include unlimited "reader" accounts. You can invite researchers, team members, or the public to access your published archives with view-only permissions. The number of administrative accounts (with upload and management rights) varies by plan.

Patrivox offers simple, transparent pricing with a free tier and scalable paid plans, all including unlimited reader access. All plans are billed monthly, with an annual billing option available for cost savings.

Découverte (Discovery): Free. Includes 100 trial pages, 200 MB storage, 50 AI queries per month, and 1 administrator. Ideal for testing the platform.

Starter: €29 per month. Includes 1,000 pages, 2 GB storage, 150 AI queries/month, and 2 administrators. Designed for small heritage projects.

Essentiel (Essential): €129 per month. Includes 5,000 pages, 10 GB storage, 1,000 AI queries/month, and 3 administrators. This popular plan adds priority email support.

Association: €299 per month. Includes 15,000 pages, 25 GB storage, 3,000 AI queries/month, 3 administrators, and supports larger file uploads (1 GB per file). Tailored for large associations and archival institutions.