Building the JFK Files Explorer: Making History Accessible with Vectorize

Vectorize has introduced the JFK Files Explorer, a tool designed to enable public interaction with newly released JFK assassination documents, showcasing the company's document intelligence capabilities. This project involved processing over 65,000 pages of complex, scanned documents to make them accessible via a conversational interface that allows users to ask questions in natural language and receive contextually relevant answers. The platform's Iris Extraction Model and scalable processing pipeline efficiently handled the low-quality scans and large volume of data, storing and indexing the content in a built-in vector database for semantic search. Deployed using technologies like Next.js, Vercel’s AI SDK, and Llama 3.3, the JFK Files Explorer is powered by Vectorize's RAG-as-a-Service, highlighting the potential of advanced document intelligence to democratize access to historical documents by transforming research from a tedious process into an intuitive conversation.