Features
What can you do with Uwazi?
Uwazi helps you collect, organise and share information in one flexible and safe space.
RECORDS MANAGEMENT
Create, organise and connect records
Categorise, cross-reference and define relationships between records, all in a user-friendly way.
TEMPLATES AND PROPERTIES
Define custom templates and properties
Create user-defined templates with a wide range of properties to categorise and organise your data.
DATA EXTRACTION
Process, extract and make sense
Use the PDF metadata extraction service for extracting specific pieces of information from PDFs
MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Work across multiple languages
Translate the Uwazi interface, as well as the records within your collection, into one or more of 180 languages.
DATA VISUALISATION
Visualise your data your way
Browse records as cards, in a table or on a map. View records, large documents, or attachments without downloading anything.
ROLES & PERMISSIONS
Collaborate with teams in various locations
Assign different permissions to members, or gather information from outside your team.
Get to know Uwazi's features
Explore what is possible with Uwazi
Collect. Manage. Analyse. Publish. With Uwazi the possibilities are endless.
Collect information from different sources
Bring information into your collection by uploading it in bulk or by adding records manually.
Gather field data with the Tella app
Gather and upload information directly from your phone to your Uwazi instance using the Tella app, designed for documentation in challenging environments.
Organise and enrich your collection
Define your content and structure. Categorise records, link related items, and use standard term lists to keep everything organised and consistent.
Find what you need, easily
Search across your collection and refine results with filters to quickly locate the right information. Find information locked inside PDF's instantly.
Collaborate smoothly
Assign roles and permissions to different team members, and gather information from outside your team with submission forms.
Save time with built-in ML tools
Handle time-consuming tasks like identifying structure in PDFs, extracting metadata and supporting automated translation, reducing hours of manual effort.
Control what’s public and private
Publish collections for public audiences or keep them private. Add your organisation’s branding for a personalised look.
Keep your sensitive data secure
Enable two-factor authentication, review activity logs, and choose between maintained, secure hosting on our reliable data centres, or self-hosting.
Take your data with you
Unlock data portability through Uwazi. Export your information in CSV format to use on different platforms or with external tools.
Choose your wORKFLOW
Collect. Manage. Analyse. Publish.
Explore what is possible at each stage of your workflow. Choose to keep your data private, public or somewhere in-between.
Collect
Document upload & management
Multi-format document support
Centralize all documentation types in one platform without converting files or maintaining multiple systems, enabling teams to work from a single source of truth regardless of document origin.
Web & public forms
Public forms
Collect testimony and documentation directly from witnesses, victims, or community members without requiring them to have system accounts, dramatically expanding the reach and scale of documentation efforts.
Offline-first integration
Tella app
Field documenters can work offline to collect data, add it to the submission forms, save it and upload the information when they are online again. It offers protection and encryption features for those who collect information in risky environments and areas with limited or no connectivity.
CSV import
CSV Bulk import (V2)
Web & API collection
RESTful API
OCR & text extraction
Document segmentation
Manage
Templates & record types
Custom template builder
Adapt the database structure to match your specific documentation needs without custom coding, ensuring the system supports your workflow rather than forcing you to change how you work.
Thesauri & controlled vocabularies
Thesauri management
Find 100% of relevant searches when searching, even when different team members use different terminology for the same concept, by standardising terms across your entire collection.
Entity relationships
Inherited properties
Multi-lingual support
Automatic translations (AI-powered)
Data modelling
Custom & common properties
Analyse
Powerful search
Full-text and PDF search
Find relevant information instantly across collections of thousands or millions of records, including documents by using keyword search, ensuring no critical information remains hidden or undiscovered.
ML-powered metadata extraction
Train custom AI models to automatically extract metadata from documents
Proven time savings when training and using our custom machine learning models. By automatically extracting key metadata, our AI models reduce the processing time for manually working through troves of documents from thousands of hours to under 50 hours.
Search & discovery
Faceted search
Content analysis
Document viewer with annotation
Geolocation & visualisation
Map visualisation
Publish
Publishing & sharing
Public entity pages
Share data internally or publish widely. Present specific findings or documents as standalone pages with permanent URLs that can be cited in reports or media coverage, ensuring your documentation has permanent web presence.
Access control & security
Control read/write access at record level for users, groups, and public access
Share specific documents publicly for advocacy while keeping sensitive victim and witness testimonies private, balancing transparency at the document level rather than making all-or-nothing decisions.
Custom design & data visualisation
Customise your content
Expand the main navigation, personalise the appearance, add custom pages by defining CSS styles, incorporate submission and contact forms, or feature charts, maps and other dynamic data visualisation components.
Access control & security
User groups
Data export & sharing
CSV export
Library with multiple layouts
Card, table and map views
Built-in AI to save valuable time
Machine learning features designed to lighten your workload
Lighten your workload
Work more efficiently
Extract patterned data
Reduce processing time
Unlock complex documents
Bridge language gaps
Customise model training
Automate information tagging
Generate predictive insights
Get to know our ML tools
Many organisations work with large volumes of information stored in PDFs and other hard-to-search formats.
Uwazi’s machine learning (ML) features help teams organise, analyse and access this material far more quickly, reducing hours of manual work.
This frees up time for what matters most, whether that’s research, documentation or making informed decisions.
Information extraction
Identifies key details like numbers, names, organisations, dates, locations, or larger text sections from documents, emails, or web pages.
PDF segmentation
Automatically detects the structure of PDFs, recognising text, images, and tables to improve navigation and make content more accessible.
Topic classification
Automatically assigns a piece of text (like an article, email, or document) to one or more categories or topics.
Automatic translations
Provides quick and on the fly translations for short texts in more than 20+ languages.
Table of contents
Automatically generates a table of contents for PDF documents.
Named entity recognition
Automatically identifies named entities such as people, organisations, locations, and more.
SEE IT IN ACTION
AI-powered Metadata Extractor eases manual processing
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Give your data structure and leverage it for purpose
Why use Uwazi?
What can you do with Uwazi?
Uwazi gives you the freedom to shape your data in a flexible and secure way:
Documenting and preserving evidence
Organising datasets for research or monitoring
Managing complaints or cases
Compiling libraries of policies, laws and reports
Investigating a trove of public-interest documents
Building archives of community records
Showcasing multimedia repositories
Sharing open-access educational resources
Cataloguing digitised art pieces or museum objects
Who uses Uwazi?
Who can use Uwazi?
Hundreds of organisations are already using Uwazi. Are you ready to see how Uwazi can transform your data?
Academics and researchers
Journalists and independent media
Think tanks and policy institutes
Human rights defenders
Nonprofit organisations
Academics and researchers
Museum workers and art curators
Librarians and archivists
Educators and educational publishers
Environmental researchers and activists
Open knowledge specialists
