Shinydocs Pro can use large language models (LLMs) to answer questions about your documents, to search by meaning, and to add AI-generated fields to your index. In the Control Center this is called the Intelligence engine. You choose where the models run: on your own hardware, with a tool such as Ollama or LM Studio, or with a cloud provider such as OpenAI or Anthropic.
Where the models run
Shinydocs Pro connects to AI providers. A provider is a server that runs models. You can add as many providers as you need under Settings > Intelligence:
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Provider |
Where it runs |
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Ollama |
On your hardware |
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LM Studio |
On your hardware |
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OpenAI |
Cloud, needs an API key |
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Anthropic |
Cloud, needs an API key |
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Anything else |
Any service with an OpenAI-compatible API |
Shinydocs is not affiliated with Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI or Anthropic. You are responsible for setting up the provider, its models and the hardware they run on. With a provider on your own hardware, your content stays on your network.
What Shinydocs Pro uses AI for
Each AI feature is a task, and you choose which model handles each one.
Answering questions about a document
In Shinydocs Search, people open a document and ask the AI assistant about it. A text model writes the answers, and an embedding model finds the passages in the document that the answer is based on.
Semantic search and AI Overview
Search can match on what people mean, not just the exact words they typed. Shinydocs Search can also write an AI answer above the results, with numbered citations to the documents it used. Both are built from content embeddings. A source must run the Generate embeddings tool (the Semantic search step on the source page) before its documents can be found this way.
AI analysis (enrichment)
Your own prompts run over each document, and the model's answers are saved as searchable fields, such as a summary, a category or a client name. You set up prompts under Settings > Analysis > AI. See AI Enrichment (Content Tagging).
Why it matters
Teams such as legal departments and municipalities hold large volumes of documents that are hard to search and classify by hand. With AI in Shinydocs Pro they can find documents by meaning, get answers with citations to the source documents, and tag content at scale, all while choosing where their data is processed.
Get started
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Shinydocs AI Interface Quick Start: from installing Ollama to asking your first question.
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Intelligence Configuration Guide: providers, models and tasks in detail.
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Ollama Quick-Start Guide: install Ollama as a service and size models for your hardware.