Győző Csóka: Rényi AI at ÁBTL conference: AI-Driven Archival Workflows in Practice

At the open conference “The Everyday Work of State Security”, hosted at the Historical Archives of the State Security in Budapest, Rényi AI delivered a keynote presentation on its collaborative work with the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security and the National Archives of Hungary.

The joint effort aims to accelerate archival workflows and improve the accessibility and reliability of historical collections.

We introduced a trustworthy, semi-agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system developed using the Council of Ministers’ meeting minutes from the first Imre Nagy government.

The solution integrates high-quality text extractions with the original scanned documents and applies a hybrid search pipeline to surface the most relevant sources.

A conversational, ChatGPT-style interface enables historians and the wider public to “chat with the documents,” with every answer linked back to the precise original page for transparent verification.

We also showcased additional AI-powered applications already deployed at the State Security Archives, including document image enhancement, automated text extraction and summarization, and sensitive-information detection.