AGI - Information Management Consultants

What AGI - Information Management Consultants does

AGI - Information Management Consultants is a privately held German software and IT services provider headquartered in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, founded in 1983 by Manfred Hauer. The company builds and sells niche software solutions and project services for libraries, archives, publishers, and government information agencies. Its core products are intelligentCAPTURE (AI- and language-engineering-driven recognition of bibliographic structures and tables of contents), intelligentSEARCH (content and metadata search), and dandelon.COMmunity (a shared bibliographic data network). The company has processed more than 3 million tables of contents since 2001, supports 249 source languages, and ingests roughly 10,000 new titles per month into dandelon.COMmunity. It also delivers RFID tagging and conversion services, having executed 70+ projects covering approximately 6 million physical media items.

Technically, AGI combines proprietary "AI Shells" — composite NLP/AI procedures — with rule-based linguistic methods and human language-engineering expertise. Partnerships with ABBYY (OCR) and PDFlib (document processing) are embedded into the capture pipeline, and the company describes its tooling as opinionated, hybrid AI-plus-linguistics rather than pure ML. The platform architecture is vertically integrated for the bibliographic domain, from scanning/OCR through structure recognition and shared catalog distribution.

AGI's commercial model mixes B2B software licensing (intelligentCAPTURE, intelligentSEARCH) with project-based services (RFID conversions, digitization, custom implementations) and a community/ecosystem contribution model on dandelon.COMmunity. Customers include scientific and academic libraries, library consortia such as HEBIS and GBV Göttingen, major publishers including Springer Nature, and public-sector entities such as the Parliament of Vorarlberg. Distribution is largely direct and partner-led via library consortia and publisher relationships, primarily in the DACH region but with multilingual reach.

Name

AGI - Information Management Consultants

Legal name

AGI - Information Management Consultants

Website

https://agi-imc.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AGI - Information Management Consultants is a German software and services provider serving libraries, archives, publishers, and government via intelligentCAPTURE, intelligentSEARCH, dandelon.COMmunity, and RFID conversion services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Library Automation Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Search, Indexing & Content Discovery (HDAEAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Document Capture, Scanning, OCR/ICR & Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (HDAEAGAD), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) & OCR Automation (HDAEAHAC), Enterprise AI Data & Knowledge Platforms (Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs) (HDAEANAH), OCR, ICR & Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (BPAAAKAB)

Keywords

• Library automation software
• Digital library solutions
• Content digitization services
• RFID library conversion
• Multilingual indexing

Headquarters

HQ city

Neustadt An Der Weinstraße

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing: Sale and licensing of intelligentCAPTURE and intelligentSEARCH software solutions to libraries and institutions for content digitization, indexing, and discovery.
2. Professional Services: Customized software development and implementation services, digitization projects, catalog enrichment, and digital library development for specific institutional requirements.
3. Managed Services: Ongoing data production and processing services including automated indexing, content enrichment, and maintenance of discovery environments.
4. Hardware Sales - RFID Conversion: RFID conversion services and mobile conversion stations for library media conversion projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

AGI develops and sells AI-based software (intelligentCAPTURE for digitization and machine indexing; intelligentSEARCH for retrieval and discovery) alongside the dandelon.COMmunity platform for multilingual scholarly content. The firm also delivers project services such as catalog enrichment digitization and mobile RFID conversion (HF and UHF) for academic, research, and national libraries.

Product overview

AGI Information Management Consultants offers an integrated suite of AI-powered library solutions consisting of two core products: intelligentCAPTURE for content production and digitization, and intelligentSEARCH for information retrieval and discovery. The products are supported by the dandelon.COMmunity platform—a collaborative network of European academic libraries and publishers producing multilingual deep indexing of scholarly publications. Additional specialized modules include intelligentCAPTURE Articles for semantic journal analysis and Thesaurus Term Recognition for controlled vocabulary mapping. The company also provides RFID conversion services and comprehensive catalog enrichment digitization services. The architecture follows a platform-plus-modules model where intelligentCAPTURE feeds structured data to intelligentSEARCH, with all content published through the dandelon.COMmunity platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• intelligentCAPTURE Software for content production that digitizes printed and digital media, applies OCR, extracts text from eBooks, recognizes journal and collection structures, and performs multilingual machine indexing and translation from 249 source languages. Targeted at academic, research, and national libraries.
• intelligentSEARCH Discovery and web publishing solution that unifies library catalogs with metadata, machine indexing, translations, and full-text content; supports faceted search with highlighted search terms, synonym expansion, and immediate display of tables of contents, abstracts, and full texts. Used by libraries and research teams for self-managed discovery.
• dandelon.COMmunity International community platform where scientific libraries and publishers contribute digitized and machine-indexed tables of contents, abstracts, and metadata; currently holds over 3 million records and serves as the largest implementation of intelligentSEARCH and as a data source for member library catalogs.
• RFID Conversion Service Mobile RFID conversion service for HF and UHF transponders using an ergonomic conversion station that processes 2,000-3,000 media per person daily; over 70 projects with approximately 6 million media items converted nationwide, with WebDAV delivery and web-based production statistics.
• Catalog Enrichment and Digital Library Services Custom digitization service for libraries covering monographs, complete books, journal series, yearbook collections, decades of newspapers, index cards with metadata capture, work parts down to paragraph level, parliamentary documents, and serials such as the Liechtenstein print media collection of the last 160 years.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3 million+ content tables of contents digitized since 2001
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability7 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• dandelon.COMmunity (Scientific Libraries and Publishers)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2003International community of scientific libraries and publishers producing multilingual deep-indexed content of primarily scientific publications. The community digitizes, machine-indexes, and publishes content tables of contents since 2003. Monthly growth of 10,000 titles. Libraries store content in their catalogs and discovery systems.
• Springer-NaturecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWeekly supplementation of eBook tables of contents from Springer-Nature in dandelon.com. AGI generates automatic bilingual indexing in German and English for two libraries and delivers indexing data to library discovery environments.
• HEBIS (Hessisches Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLibrary consortium hosting digitized work parts from Herder-Institut collections including cover pages, tables of contents, bibliographies, indexes, and abstracts. AGI delivers data to HEBIS catalog systems.
• GBV Göttingen (Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLibrary consortium receiving Current Content collection with article data exported from intelligentCAPTURE Articles to the consortium catalog.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• EBSCO Information Services: Major aggregator of scholarly content and discovery services (EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhost). Comparable to AGI in supplying indexed scholarly metadata and discovery experiences to academic libraries, with a much broader content corpus.
• ProQuest (Clarivate): Aggregator of scholarly content, dissertations, and primary sources with deep discovery and indexing capabilities. Comparable to AGI in scholarly metadata and library discovery, especially for content supply and indexing pipelines.
• SirsiDynix: Provider of integrated library systems (Symphony, BLUEcloud) and discovery services used by public and academic libraries. Overlaps with AGI in library discovery and metadata, though oriented primarily around ILS rather than digitization.
• OCLC: Global library cooperative providing WorldCat discovery, metadata services, and shared cataloging infrastructure. Comparable to AGI in serving library discovery and content indexing, but with a vastly larger cooperative network and broader geographic footprint.
• Ex Libris (Clarivate): A leading library automation vendor offering discovery, resource management, and linked data platforms (Alma, Primo, Rosetta). It overlaps with AGI in scholarly metadata, indexing, and discovery, but operates at much greater scale across global academic and national libraries.
• Innovative Interfaces (Clarivate): Provider of library services platforms (Polaris, Sierra, Vega) and discovery tools for public and academic libraries. Overlaps with AGI in serving library automation and discovery workflows, though focused more on ILS than specialized multilingual indexing.
• Language Science / RWS Group (SDL): Provider of language technology, translation, and content management platforms. Overlaps with AGI in multilingual indexing and translation capabilities, though RWS focuses on enterprise translation rather than library-specific content.

Others

• ABBYY: OCR and document capture technology vendor whose FineReader engine AGI integrates. Comparable as an OCR/IDP technology provider in the document digitization stack, but supplies tools rather than full library solutions.

Regional players

• PTFS Europe (FOLIO implementation partner): European-focused library services and open-source FOLIO implementation partner. Comparable to AGI in serving European academic libraries with discovery, content, and digitization-adjacent services, primarily in the UK/EU region.

Direct peers

• Axiell Group (incl. Bibliotheca): European library and archive technology vendor providing ILS, RFID solutions, and digitization services. Directly comparable to AGI in serving European public, national, and academic libraries with both software and RFID conversion services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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