Hi, I am new here (obviously) and I have a question. Are there any AI tools specifically for reference works? Let me explain, I am writing a book on different kinds of aircraft, and I have a lot of text documents that I want to use as input. Is there a program that can edit the texts in all these document and combine it into one text? Say, I have text in 3 different document from different sources and I want to have this made into one output text document. Is this possible? It doesn't bother me if there are duplicates in the text, I can edit that by hand. Kind regards, Willem
I'm confused as to what the goal is. Are you combining text documents that you already created (original work) or text documents from other sources? One of the issues I see with this approach is, how would you go about citing the sources? Do you list all of them even if the particular citation only came from one of them? Programs like Scrivener have a Corkboard where you can post info like this on the side for reference next to your main draft. I'm just wondering why this approach isn't suitable.
It sounds like what you want is an OCR program to scan these documents into text files. You would have to combine the sections by hand.
I would reconsider. AIs make huge errors, and even if you point out to it that it made a mistake it often refuses to acknowledge the fact. Plus most publishers don't want anything that's been touched by AI.
Thank you for your input and advice gentlemen. You have pointed the flaws in both my presumptions about IA and AI itself. I don't want any trouble with citing the sources either. I just wanted to save some time, but I see now that my expectations are unrealistic.
