A screenshot PII data anonymiser app for technical documentation

This is a short demo of an AI app we created to anonymise Personally Identifiable Information in screenshots. This is for situations where you need to include screenshots in user guides, Help files, knowledge bases etc. In the video, it takes a Xero invoice and changes the data. Screenshot PII Data Anonymiser App for Technical… Read more »

Podcast: The Art and Frustration of AI Video

As I was away in Tokyo, there wasn’t a Cherryleaf Podcast episode this month. However, I did appear as a guest on the Virtual Lounge Podcast, talking about AI video. What if pro-level video creation didn’t require a film crew, expensive equipment, or weeks of production time? Imagine literally describing what you want and having… Read more »

Creating an AI automated style checker

We create an AI automatic style checker this morning, and decided to see if Microsoft’s getting started user guide for Edge followed the Microsoft Manual of Style. Surprisingly, it did not.   Although you can use AI systems to check documents against a style guide, it’s often better to use a linter, such as Vale…. Read more »

Towards a Question and Answer world

A flat-style digital illustration shows a young woman sitting cross-legged and reading a large open manual on the left side. On the right, a smiling robot with a speech bubble containing a question mark interacts with a standing man. The image uses soft shades of blue and orange to contrast traditional documentation with modern chatbot-based assistance.

Technical communication has traditionally been rooted in instructional guides: comprehensive resources users could turn to when they needed information. But that information was only useful if users could actually find it. The expectation was that users would search for what they needed and then read it. On the provider’s side, the goal was to make… Read more »