How to integrate AI in Alfresco and ADF?

[leelaprasad_guvvala]

Hi,

Can we integrate AI in Alfresco and ADF?
If yes, Is there any trial version available to test?

Thanks,

Leela Prasad Guvvala

[angelborroy]

Yes, you can integrate AI with Alfresco and ADF/ACA/ADW, but there are two different paths.

For Enterprise, the supported product route is Alfresco Intelligence Services / Content Intelligence. Alfresco Intelligence Services adds AI capabilities to ACS and Digital Workspace using AWS AI services such as Textract, Comprehend, Rekognition and Transcribe. Hyland also has the Alfresco Connector for Content Intelligence, including Knowledge Discovery in Digital Workspace.

For Community or custom implementations, the usual architecture is:

1. Use Alfresco as the source of truth.
2. Extract content and metadata through the Alfresco REST API.
3. Generate embeddings with an AI service or local model.
4. Store vectors in Elasticsearch/OpenSearch or another vector store.
5. Expose a backend REST API for semantic search / RAG.
6. Add an ADF/ACA/ADW extension for the user interface.

ADF/ADW supports extensions, so you can add custom actions, panels or routes without rebuilding everything from scratch.

I have a few public PoCs that may help:

• aborroy/alfresco-ai-framework: sample Spring AI integration with Alfresco, including RAG, sync service and UI
• aborroy/alfresco-genai: private/local GenAI examples for Alfresco, including summarization, tagging and document Q&A
• aborroy/alfresco-content-lake: newer PoC for semantic search and RAG over Alfresco content, with permission-aware retrieval
• aborroy/alfresco-content-lake-ui: ACA/ADW extension adding semantic search and RAG UI panels

For a trial, if you want the supported Hyland route, I would suggest contacting Hyland Sales or Support about Alfresco Intelligence Services / Content Intelligence availability. If you want to test the technical approach locally, the GitHub PoCs above can be used as starting points, but they are community examples, not supported product distributions.

https://docs.alfresco.com/intelligence-services/latest/
https://docs.alfresco.com/digital-workspace/latest/develop/extensions/
https://github.com/aborroy/alfresco-ai-framework