Peer to Peer: ILTA's Quarterly Magazine
Issue link: https://epubs.iltanet.org/i/1544492
104 VISION AND AUDIO INTEGRATION Vision Law firms accumulate vast volumes of information in visual formats: scanned documents, handwritten notes, court filings received as images, and legacy physical records. PC Chat's vision integration pro- cesses these files through an OCR pipeline, including sophisticated handwriting recognition to extract and index their content. The extracted text then flows through the standard Kernel Memory RAG pipeline for embedding and storage, making previously inacces- sible visual content fully queryable through natural language. Audio For audio files, PC Chat uses GPT-Transcribe (an OpenAI speech-to-text model) in place of the OCR handler. Tran- scribed content is then processed through the same pipe- line as other document types. This capability transforms PC Chat into a fully conversational assistant, supporting hands-free interaction for attorneys reviewing documents, in meetings, or otherwise occupied. INTEGRATION WITH OTHER DATA SOURCES VIA DENODO The firm uses Denodo as its data virtualization platform, enabling seamless access to multiple het- erogeneous data sources through a single logical layer. To connect these data assets to PC Chat, we leverage the Denodo AI SDK to develop APIs, which are then con- sumed through Semantic Kernel plugins, the same pattern used for all other integrations. A key implementation detail was con- figuring AI-specific instructions in both the PC Chat (OpenAI model) configuration and on the Denodo side to ensure correct interaction with exposed data and APIs. As Denodo continues to evolve, these configuration steps are expected to become more streamlined.

