Archive - Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

Turning unreadable text into evidence

Chatbots come to the rescue once again

May 11 •

April 2025

"Doc casts" now available in 50 languages

Breaking language barriers for investigators, journalists, and anyone drowning in PDFs

Apr 30 •

Search Whisperer Beta: beating Google's confused algorithm?

37 seconds can transform your garbage queries into information gold

Apr 23 •

Introducing AI Research Pilot

A slightly less annoying way to query AIs

Apr 9 •

How to make AI draw properly

AI tool-hopping: the secret to creating professional illustrations

Apr 8 •

How AI can understand what you're really looking for

Ctrl-F is dead, long live the chatbots

Apr 5 •

March 2025

Gemini 2.5 Pro: coding assistant that actually works

It's refreshing to finally use an AI that doesn't hallucinate

Mar 28 •

ChatGPT gets finally images right?

OpenAI releases "4o Image Generation"

Mar 26 •

Introducing: VisualOrigins Detector

Discover when images first appeared online

Mar 17 •

How to detect deepfakes with AI

Fighting fire with fire can actually work (MANUAL)

Mar 14 •

February 2025

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