Extract
Benefits
Transforms complex geospatial information from static documents into digital, structured formats significantly faster, more consistently, and at lower cost than traditional manual methods. Saves time and money for councils, frees up capacity for planners, makes planning rules clearer and easier to follow, supports delivery of more homes, and lays groundwork for smarter digital planning services.
Details
- Tool name
- Extract
- Organisation
- Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government
- Status
- pilot
- AI method (as recorded)
- Large Language Model, Computer Vision
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Large Language Model Computer Vision
- Usecase
- Document Intelligence
- Origin
- gov.uk
- Owning team
- Planning Data team in MHCLG's Digital Planning programme and Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI)
- Date added
- 12 June 2025
- Scrape date
- Source note
- Blog post describing Extract AI tool for digitizing historical planning documents. [Source]