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title: "Document Intelligence: Summarise & Extract | Shipshape Data"
description: "Document intelligence on your governed data: we turn documents, emails, and PDFs into concise summaries and clean, structured data your AI and teams can use."
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# Document intelligence

> Document intelligence on your governed data: we turn documents, emails, and PDFs into concise summaries and clean, structured data your AI and teams can use.

Section: Home > Services > Summarise & extract

Canonical page: https://shipshapedata.com/services/summarise-extract/

On this page:

- Turning documents into data you can use
- What you get
  - Automated classification
  - Concise, accurate summaries
  - Entities and relationships found
  - Governed and audit ready
- Proof it works
- How we deliver
  - Find where the value is hiding
  - Collect and prepare
  - Classify and structure
  - Enrich and validate
  - Scale and govern
- Questions we hear most

## Frequently asked questions

### What is document intelligence?

Document intelligence is the use of AI to read unstructured documents, emails, contracts, and PDFs and turn them into structured, usable data: summaries, extracted fields, classifications, and the entities inside them. It replaces manual reading and retyping with a governed pipeline your systems can trust.

### What kinds of unstructured content can you work with?

We handle text, PDFs, images, audio transcripts, emails, chat logs, and more, anything that doesn't already come in a defined structure.

### How does this improve our AI and analytics?

Structuring your data improves model accuracy, cuts training time, and makes the resulting insight usable across teams rather than stuck in one document.

### Is governance built in?

Yes. Every pipeline includes versioning, lineage tracking, and compliance controls, so the output is audit ready.

### How fast can we see results?

Most clients have usable, structured datasets within 2 to 4 weeks of the project starting.

### Do you support ongoing, continuous ingestion?

Yes, we design pipelines that keep datasets updated automatically as new content arrives, not just a one-off clean-up.

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