AI and OCR transparency

Intelligence that proposes.
People who decide.

AirplaneHQ can help make logbook pages searchable and surface possible maintenance evidence. It is deliberately designed to keep consequential changes behind authorized human review.

What happens to a page

A review-first pipeline.

01
Original preserved
The source upload is stored as an aircraft document. Derived pages do not replace it.
02
Human page review
An authorized user rotates, reorders, removes, and places staged pages before committing them.
03
Local OCR
Tesseract can extract text and word positions inside the application environment without an external AI key.
04
Optional AI enhancement
When enabled, a page image and limited relevant context may be sent to the configured AI provider for better extraction and candidate matching.
05
Draft suggestion
The result is stored as a pending label, region, rationale, extracted detail, and possible maintenance target.
06
Authorized decision
A person compares the suggestion with the page, edits it, and accepts or dismisses it. Accepted evidence can be undone.

Hard boundaries

What the system does not do.

It does not automatically create or complete an official maintenance requirement.
It does not verify a signature, certificate, technician, part, date, or aircraft time.
It does not determine airworthiness, compliance, approval, or return to service.
It does not make OCR or AI output part of an export before the page itself is reviewed and committed.
It does not require an external AI provider for ordinary import, review, browsing, or local OCR.

Data handling

What may leave the application environment.

When optional AI is disabled or no API key is configured, page images remain in the application’s configured storage and local OCR path. When enabled, the configured provider may receive:

The relevant logbook page image
Locally extracted OCR text or structure
Limited aircraft and maintenance-candidate context needed for matching
Instructions describing the requested structured output

Customers should review the Privacy Policy and Subprocessors for the production configuration.

Reviewer checklist

Before accepting any suggestion.

Confirm the aircraft and page context.
Read the source image—not only extracted text.
Verify dates, hours, identifiers, and handwriting.
Confirm the maintenance target is the exact record supported.
Draw the smallest useful region and use a factual label.
Dismiss uncertainty or consult the controlling record.