# Evidano > Evidano (formerly AILYZE) is an AI-powered qualitative research platform for researchers, analysts, and evaluation teams. It covers the whole evidence workflow — collecting web, social-media and survey data, running AI-moderated avatar interviews, transcribing audio, video, handwriting and scans, translating, thematic coding and analysis, visualization, and chatting with your documents — and is positioned as a faster, more accurate, and more secure alternative to manual coding in NVivo, MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, Delve, and Dedoose. Canonical site: https://www.evidano.com — complete URL index at https://www.evidano.com/sitemap.xml **At a glance** - Validation: 96% agreement with human coders across 371 transcripts in a peer-reviewed study (Arizona State University / Penn State, ACL AIME-Con 2025); 92% across 298 evaluation reports; 8 of 9 human themes supported across 224 survey responses (University of Texas at Austin / Wichita State, Journal of Experimental Criminology 2026); 54 hours of manual coding reduced to 1 hour (UNICEF). Details and links under "Human vs AI Comparisons". - In a benchmark of 34 independent published papers (2024–2026), Evidano's average agreement with expert human analysis across its three studies is 92.3%, the highest of any tool benchmarked. Each study is summarised with its method and source under "Accuracy Benchmarks" and on https://www.evidano.com/alternatives. - Pricing: Free plan with no expiry; Pro at USD 50 / month; pay-as-you-go usage for interviews, transcription, translation, image-to-text, and web data. - Security: AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, FIPS 140-2 compliant modules, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO and HECVAT certified, GDPR, HIPAA (BAA available), CCPA/CPRA. Customer data is never used to train AI models. - Supported inputs: Word, PDF, and text documents; Excel and CSV; audio and video; images, scans and handwritten pages; survey responses; web and social-media data. - Languages: analysis and avatar interviews in 100+ languages. ## Core Features Each link below points to a publicly accessible page (no sign-in required). [Features](https://www.evidano.com/features) is the full catalogue; the capabilities below also have their own dedicated pages. - [Qualitative analysis of DOCX/PDF documents](https://www.evidano.com/features): Thematic coding, viewpoint comparison, and codebook management for in-depth qualitative research on Word and PDF files. Every theme and code is backed by a clickable, source-linked quote. - [Spreadsheet analysis of XLSX/CSV files](https://www.evidano.com/features): AI-driven analysis of open-ended survey responses and other tabular text, with auto-generated charts and insights. - [AI Avatar Interviewer (live demo)](https://www.evidano.com/ai-avatar-demo): Avatars that run semi-structured voice interviews in 100+ languages, probe beyond the interview guide, and read participants' expressions and emotional cues. Try it without an account. - [Audio and video transcription](https://www.evidano.com/speech-to-text): Multi-language transcription with speaker diarization. Per-language pages use a language code, e.g. `/speech-to-text/en`, `/speech-to-text/en_uk`, `/speech-to-text/es`. - [Image to text](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text): Transcribe photographs, scans and PDFs of handwriting, historical manuscripts, printed pages and forms into editable text. Every supported language, historical hand and document type has its own page with real sample pages and transcriptions: language hubs use the form `/image-to-text/{language}` (e.g. `/image-to-text/english`, `/image-to-text/german`) and named hands or document types the form `/image-to-text/{language}/{domain}` (e.g. `/image-to-text/english/old-english-insular-manuscripts`, `/image-to-text/german/german-kurrent-administrative-and-personal-hands`). Languages without named hands render their page directly at `/image-to-text/{language}` (e.g. `/image-to-text/korean`). The full list is in the "Image to Text Pages" section below. - [Document translation](https://www.evidano.com/translation): Translate PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and TXT files with built-in analysis. Per-language-pair pages use the form `/translation/from {source} to {target}`, URL-encoded — e.g. `/translation/from%20Bulgarian%20to%20Danish`. Targets containing a slash encode it too, e.g. `/translation/from%20Bulgarian%20to%20Czech%2FSlovak`. - [Web and social media data collection](https://www.evidano.com/getdata): Collect data from websites and social media, then send it straight into analysis. The signed-in workspace is at `/extract`, with scheduled recurring collection at `/extract/schedules`. - [Chat with your data](https://www.evidano.com/ai-chatbot): Chat with your documents, spreadsheets, or a standalone AI. Ask questions, pull quotes, and get answers grounded in and cited back to your source files. - [Free AI detector](https://www.evidano.com/ai-detection): Checks whether text reads as AI-generated. The model runs entirely in the browser — the text is never uploaded to a server — and it is free, unlimited, and needs no account. Results give a document-level probability, a passage-by-passage heat map, and a sentence-group breakdown showing which parts of the text carry the score. Reports export as an annotated HTML report, raw JSON scores, or a plain-text summary. [Bulk AI detector](https://www.evidano.com/ai-detection/bulk) runs the same check across many files at once and exports CSV, XLSX, or a ZIP of per-file HTML reports. The detector is tuned for English; other languages are not reliably scored. Two further features are built and used inside the app rather than on a public marketing page: - **Surveys** — build surveys from scratch or from templates, collect responses, and analyze the open-ended answers with AI. Created at `/surveys` (sign-in required); respondents answer via a public share link. - **AI avatar interview projects** — set up, invite participants to, and review AI video interviews at `/avatar-list` (sign-in required). Participants join via a private `/ai-avatar/{slug}` link; each completed interview has an editable transcript at `/interview-transcript/{id}`. The same avatar technology is previewed publicly on the [AI Avatar Demo](https://www.evidano.com/ai-avatar-demo). **AI analysis capabilities** (available across the features above) - AI Chatbot — chat directly with uploaded files and AI-generated reports - AI Assisted Coding — auto-apply codes to documents, transcripts, and survey responses, deductively from your own codebook or inductively - AI Thematic Analysis — detect, structure, and summarize themes across a corpus - AI Content Analysis — extract structured answers from documents using your own questions - AI Frequency / Cross-Segment Analysis — count and compare codes across documents and demographic segments - AI Summarisation — generate concise summaries of documents and findings - AI Data Visualization — five visualizations per theme (hierarchy graph, co-occurrence network, sub-theme and code frequency charts, and segment breakdown), generated automatically **Integrations** - Import recordings from Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams cloud recordings; import files from Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, or a URL. - Import an existing Google Form as a survey. - Recruit interview participants through Prolific. - Claude connector: with an Evidano account, Claude can list and export AI avatar interview projects. Consent and connection management live at `/connect/claude` (sign-in required). **Signed-in app routes** (require an account; excluded from crawling): `/ailyze` (quick single-document analysis), `/projects` and `/project/{id}` (DOCX/PDF projects), `/excel-projects` and `/excel-project/{id}` (XLSX/CSV projects), `/ai-documents` and `/ai-document/{id}` (document translation), `/image-transcriptions` and `/image-transcription/{id}` (image to text), `/ai-transcripts` and `/ai-transcript/{id}` (audio/video transcription), `/avatar-list` and `/avatar-list/{id}` (avatar interview projects), `/interview-transcript/{id}`, `/surveys` and `/survey/{id}`, `/extract`, `/account`, `/subscription`. Each feature also has a `/create` form (e.g. `/project/create`, `/avatar-list/create`). **Private links** (sent to specific people; not public pages): `/ai-avatar/{slug}` (interview invitation), `/form/{slug}` and `/survey/{id}` (survey respondents), `/view-shared-project/{id}`, `/view-excel-share-project/{id}`, `/view-shared-transcription-project`, `/view-chatbot/{id}` (read-only shared reports and chats). ## Accuracy Benchmarks vs Other Tools Source page: [https://www.evidano.com/](https://www.evidano.com/) (comparison section); method and per-study detail at [Human vs AI](https://www.evidano.com/human-vs-ai). Evidano achieves the best accuracy because it is AI-native and purpose-built for qualitative research. The comparison below draws on 34 independent published papers (2024–2026), in which AI-generated qualitative codes, themes, or classifications were evaluated against human analysis. **Approximate average accuracy vs. expert human analysis** (mean of one headline result per study; Cohen's kappa and F1 shown as percentages; where a paper compared prompts or settings, its final or best-performing prompted configuration is used; preprints and embedding-similarity-only studies are excluded): | Tool | Approx. average accuracy | Benchmark sample size | Key sources | |---|---|---|---| | Evidano (previously AILYZE) | 92.3% | 5,133 | 92.0% coding accuracy in Brouek et al. (2024); κ = .959 in Firetto et al. (2025, NCME); 8 of 9 human-coded themes supported in Abner & Mee (2026, J Exp Criminol) | | DeepSeek | 65.5% | ≈288,718 | Bennis & Mouaffaq (2025, BMC Med Inform Decis Mak); Matveyenko et al. (2026, ACL Industry Track); Camporese et al. (2026, ICPC); Mizumoto & Teng (2025, Res Methods Appl Linguist); Na & Feng (2025, AIED); Yu et al. (2026, JMIR) | | GPT family (incl. QualiGPT, o3, GPT-5) | 60.2% | ≈312,794 | 24 studies: Zhang et al. (2025, AHFE); Bennis & Mouaffaq (2025); Dunivin (2025, EPJ Data Science); Cui et al. (2026, Frontiers in Education); Hill et al. (2026); Matveyenko et al. (2026); Ayik et al. (2026); Jeong et al. (2025, JAMIA Open); DeRegnaucourt et al. (2026, JMIR Form Res); Liu et al. (2025, J Learn Anal); Wen et al. (2026, AI & Society); von der Heyde et al. (2025, Survey Research Methods); Turner et al. (2026, Implement Sci Commun); Wang et al. (2025, PACM HCI CSCW); Bang et al. (2026, JAMIA); Yang & Ma (2025, Quality & Quantity); Qiao et al. (2025, Appl Psychol Health Well Being); Castellanos et al. (2025, JMIR AI); Koh et al. (2025, JMIR); Ren et al. (2026, J Learn Anal); Habib et al. (2026, Am J Audiol); López-Pérez et al. (2025, Emotion); Camporese et al. (2026); Na & Feng (2025) | | MAXQDA | 58.0% | 1,789 | Schueller et al. (2026, Int J Qual Methods); Ayik et al. (2026, Qualitative Inquiry); Boettinger et al. (2026, Quality & Quantity); Červeňová & Demkanin (2025, Digital) | | Claude | 54.7% | 7,835 | Zhang et al. (2025, AHFE); Bennis & Mouaffaq (2025); Hill et al. (2026, PLOS Digital Health); AlGhamdi (2026, Int J Qual Methods); Misgav et al. (2026, Qual Health Res); Koh et al. (2025, JMIR); Ren et al. (2026, J Learn Anal); Habib et al. (2026, Am J Audiol); López-Pérez et al. (2025, Emotion); Camporese et al. (2026, ICPC) | | ATLAS.ti | 16.7% | 6 | Ayik et al. (2026) — one exact match among six validated human themes | | NVivo | No qualifying quantitative benchmark | — | NVivo has limited AI capabilities | **Security, trials, and pricing** | Feature | Evidano | NVivo | MAXQDA | ATLAS.ti | Delve | Dedoose | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Data Security | Strong | Weak | Weak | Weak | Weak | Weak | | Free Trial | Unlimited for key features | 14 days | 14 days | 5 days | 14 days | 1 month | | Price per month | USD 50 | USD 2,288 (annual only) | USD 740 (annual only) | USD 58 | USD 50 | USD 18 | **Data security details** - Evidano: Data encrypted at rest and in transit, never used to train AI models, stored in a defined US or EU region. - NVivo: Data processed and accessible by third parties. - MAXQDA: Data processed and accessible by Amazon Web Services. - ATLAS.ti: Data processed and accessible to third parties. - Delve: Data stored in less-protected jurisdictions. - Dedoose: Data accessible by Dedoose. **Why Evidano wins** - Highest average accuracy (92.3%) across published benchmarks, validated in independent published papers. - Purpose-built for qualitative research: expert-defined codebooks, iterative validation, and human-on-the-loop review are built into the platform rather than left to prompt engineering. - Every theme and code links back to its source passage, so AI output can be verified rather than trusted. - Strong data security stance: encryption in transit and at rest, regional data residency, no training on customer data. - Unlimited free trial for key features (vs. competitors' time-limited trials). - Pro plan at USD 50 / month is among the lowest in the category vs. the USD 2,288 / year NVivo and USD 740 / year MAXQDA. Detailed head-to-head breakdowns: - [Pricing Comparison](https://www.evidano.com/pricing-comparison): Subscription, AI, and transcription costs vs. NVivo, MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, Delve, and Dedoose for your exact scenario, sourced from each vendor's official checkout. - [Data Security Comparison](https://www.evidano.com/data-security-comparison): Subprocessor chains, AI model ownership, human review, training use, and encryption posture vs. the same tools, sourced from each provider's own terms. ## Plans & Pricing Source page: [https://www.evidano.com/plans](https://www.evidano.com/plans) Evidano offers a Free tier and a Pro subscription, plus pay-as-you-go usage pricing that applies on every tier. Institutional seat licences are sold through sales rather than self-serve checkout. **Free Plan — Free forever, no expiry** - Unlimited docx/pdf projects (50 files per project included; USD 1.50 per additional file) - Unlimited xlsx/csv projects (~5,000 rows per project) - Unlimited number of projects - Data encrypted and not used to train AI models - AI Thematic Analysis — 1 theme - AI Content Analysis — 1 question - AI Assisted Coding / Frequency Analysis — 1 theme and 1 question - AI Cross-segment Analysis — 1 theme and 1 question - AI Data Visualization — 1 theme and 1 question - AI Summary — unlimited - Free, unlimited internal avatar creation and testing - Live human chatbot support **Pro Plan — USD 50 / month** - Everything in Free, with unlimited usage of all AI analysis features - Unlimited AI Chatbot (chat with files and analysis) - Unlimited AI Thematic Analysis, Content Analysis, Coding, Cross-segment, Data Visualization, Summary - Share AI reports with others - 1-1 video-call customer support - Customer support within 24 hours **Pay-as-you-go usage (all plans; free allowances are per project or analysis)** - AI Avatar Interviewer — USD 0.60 per minute of interview collected - AI Audio/Video Transcription — 1 hour free, then USD 1.00 per hour - AI Document Translation — ~1,000 words free, then USD 0.40 per ~1,000 words (billed at USD 0.000075 per source character, assuming ~5.3 characters per word; 50,000-character minimum per document) - Image to Text — 10 images free, then USD 0.25 per image (USD 1.50 per image with the advanced model for difficult pages); PDF pages count as images - Extract website data — 100 URLs free, then USD 1.50 per 10 URLs Pricing is shown in USD by default and supports EUR, GBP, JPY, CNY, INR, AUD, CAD, CHF, KRW, and other major currencies. ## Human vs AI Comparisons Source page: [https://www.evidano.com/human-vs-ai](https://www.evidano.com/human-vs-ai) Evidano has been tested against traditional human qualitative coding by independent research teams. Four independent comparisons: **1. Arizona State University & Penn State — 96% Accuracy Coding Interview Transcripts** - Peer-reviewed study of Evidano's coding, 371 small-group discussion transcripts analyzed - Human-only baseline: 13 weeks of coding, affected by fatigue and selective attention - Human + Evidano: 12 hours total processing, 96% accuracy, transparent reasoning for every code - Researcher quote: "The benefit of using Evidano was its capacity to generate explanations and justifications for coding decisions. This provided transparency that strengthened our human-in-the-loop process." - Publication: https://aclanthology.org/2025.aimecon-wip.15.pdf - Best for: interview analysis, transcript coding, qualitative research, thematic analysis, grounded theory **2. Evaluation meta-synthesis — 92% Accuracy Coding Evaluation Reports** - 298 evaluation reports analyzed using a realist evaluation approach - Human-only baseline: weeks of processing, multiple evaluators, hard to be consistent - Human + Evidano: 3 hours of processing, 92% accuracy, consistent codebook, 132 CMO (Context-Mechanism-Outcome) configurations identified - Report quote: "The AI tool achieved an accuracy of 92 per cent for coding the evaluation reports ... [with] a total of 132 CMO configurations were identified." - Publication: https://www.unfpa.org/what-works-amplify-rights-and-voices-youth-education-and-employment - Best for: literature reviews, meta-evaluations, systematic reviews, report synthesis, document screening, evidence mapping **3. University of Texas at Austin & Wichita State — 8 of 9 Human Themes Matched in Survey Responses** - Peer-reviewed study (Abner & Mee, 2026, Journal of Experimental Criminology) of public views on police leadership - Human-only baseline: 9 themes from an inductive thematic analysis of 224 responses to two open-ended questions - Human + Evidano: an independent Evidano analysis supported 8 of the 9 themes "with only minor differences in wording" and proposed one extra theme per question for the researchers to weigh - Publication: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-026-09770-4 - Best for: survey open-ends, analytic triangulation, second-coder checks, blind-spot and bias review **4. UNICEF — 54 hours of manual analysis reduced to 1 hour** - 160 management responses compared between human coders and Evidano - Human-only baseline: 54 hours of manual coding at a cost of USD 5,000 - Human + Evidano (self-serve): 1 hour at a cost of USD 50 - UNICEF quote: "Overall, the Evidano platform did a very good job in identifying key themes in the data and also in summarizing these key themes in prose," and "provided a wide range of examples to illustrate the themes, pulling directly from recommendations and actions." - Publication: https://knowledge.unicef.org/resource/review-management-responses-humanitarian-evaluations-2017-2024-generative-artificial - Best for: survey open-ends, social media comment analysis, feedback coding, management response analysis, thematic analysis at scale ## Data Security Source page: [https://www.evidano.com/data-security](https://www.evidano.com/data-security) Data security is Evidano's top priority. The platform is built around five core commitments: **1. Your data is fully encrypted** - Encryption in Transit: TLS 1.2 or higher protects data moving between you and Evidano servers. - Encryption at Rest: All data is secured on disk with industry-standard AES-256 encryption. - Cryptographic Modules: Encryption methods are FIPS 140-2 compliant, meeting high government security standards. **2. Your data is NEVER used to train AI models** - Policy explicitly forbids using Customer Data to train, retrain, fine-tune, or otherwise improve Evidano's AI models. - Logical Segregation: Each customer's data is kept in a logically separate space, identified by a unique tenant ID, to prevent cross-contamination or misuse. **3. You are in control of your data** - On-Demand Deletion: You can delete your data directly through the Evidano interface at any time. - Full Deletion: Deleted data is removed from production systems and from backups within 35 days and cannot be recovered afterwards. Closing your account, or a verified deletion request, deletes your data the same way unless the law requires particular records to be retained. **4. Your data stays in your region** - US customers' data is stored in the United States (Microsoft Azure US East). - All other customers' data is stored in the European Union (Microsoft Azure West Europe). - Your content stays in its assigned region; some account and service metadata may cross borders. For transfers outside the EU/UK, Evidano uses Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to ensure data is protected to a GDPR-equivalent standard. **5. Industry compliance standards** - SOC 2 Type 2 — independently audited for Security, Availability, Confidentiality, and Privacy, with continuous vulnerability scanning and annual third-party penetration testing - GDPR — compliant with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation - HIPAA — ready to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for processing Protected Health Information - CCPA / CPRA — compliant with California's data privacy laws - ISO and HECVAT — certified **Documents available on request** - SOC 2 Report - Data Processing Agreement (DPA) Related: [How We Trained Our AI Models](https://www.evidano.com/how-we-trained-our-ai-models) — Evidano does not train on user uploads; models are grounded in a provenance-controlled mix of open, public-domain, permissioned, and research-appropriate corpora. ## Evidence & Case Studies - [Human vs AI](https://www.evidano.com/human-vs-ai): Head-to-head results against manual qualitative coding (details above). - [Research Spotlights](https://www.evidano.com/research-spotlights): Researchers at leading universities who used Evidano in published, peer-reviewed research. Individual spotlights live at `/research-spotlights/{slug}`, covering topics from anthrax risk in Zambian farming communities to AI literacy and employment prospects. - [Case Studies](https://www.evidano.com/case-studies): Real-world deployments across academia, government, health, and UN development. Individual studies live at `/case-studies/{slug}`, e.g. `/case-studies/oxford-melbourne-ai-interview-analysis`. - [How We Trained Our AI Models](https://www.evidano.com/how-we-trained-our-ai-models): Model provenance and training-data policy. - [Cite Us](https://www.evidano.com/cite-us): How to cite Evidano in academic work, with excerpts showing how published research has used it (as a thought partner, second coder, initial coder, or for synthesis). ## Solutions & Tool Comparisons - [Thematic Analysis Software](https://www.evidano.com/thematic-analysis-software): What AI-native thematic analysis software is, how Evidano runs inductive and codebook-driven analysis end to end, capability comparison vs NVivo, MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, and Delve, and an honest note on reflexive thematic analysis. - [AI Thematic Analysis: Accuracy, Methods, and Limits](https://www.evidano.com/ai-thematic-analysis): Evidence-led guide to AI coding of qualitative data — published agreement studies, how AI maps onto Braun and Clarke's six phases, the hallucinated-quote problem, and a defensible researcher workflow. - [AI Qualitative Coding with Your Own Codebook](https://www.evidano.com/ai-qualitative-coding): Deductive, codebook-driven AI coding with an auditable source quote behind every code application; also covers inductive codebook drafting. - [Source-Traceable Quotes](https://www.evidano.com/quote-traceability): Why hallucinated quotes are the central risk of AI qualitative analysis and how Evidano's clickable, source-linked quotes make every theme verifiable. - [Multilingual Qualitative Analysis](https://www.evidano.com/multilingual-qualitative-analysis): Analyze data in 100+ languages — code in the original language or translate first, with transcription and cross-language comparison in one workflow. - [Best Qualitative Data Analysis Tools in 2026](https://www.evidano.com/alternatives): Eight tools — Evidano, NVivo, MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, Delve, Dovetail, Dedoose, and Taguette — ranked on accuracy evidence from the 34 published papers (2024–2026) that compared AI coding with human analysis, each study summarised and linked, then compared on codebook support, quote traceability, languages, security, and price. Evidano leads at 92.3% average agreement; MAXQDA AI Assist averages 58.0%, ATLAS.ti AI 16.7%, and NVivo's AI has no published benchmark. - [NVivo Alternatives](https://www.evidano.com/alternatives/nvivo): Six NVivo alternatives compared, with the documented reasons researchers switch, an Evidano-vs-NVivo head-to-head, and a paper-by-paper discussion of the accuracy research (NVivo's AI Assistant has no published benchmark; Evidano's coding was measured at 96% and 92% agreement with human coders, and 8 of 9 human themes supported). - [MAXQDA Alternatives](https://www.evidano.com/alternatives/maxqda): Six MAXQDA alternatives compared, including like-for-like CAQDAS switches and AI-native options, with the four peer-reviewed tests of MAXQDA AI Assist (64.0% segment correspondence; 3 of 6 themes matched; κ no higher than .38; F1 = .80 in a pilot; 58.0% average) discussed in detail beside Evidano's 92.3%. - [ATLAS.ti Alternatives](https://www.evidano.com/alternatives/atlas-ti): Six ATLAS.ti alternatives compared, with an Evidano-vs-ATLAS.ti head-to-head and the one published test of ATLAS.ti AI (1 of 6 validated human themes matched, 16.7%) set against Evidano's published 96% and 92%. - [Dedoose Alternatives](https://www.evidano.com/alternatives/dedoose): Six Dedoose alternatives compared, with an Evidano-vs-Dedoose head-to-head on coding workflow, transcription, security posture, and price, and the published evidence on what adding an AI first pass delivers (general-purpose chatbots 55–66% agreement with human coders; Evidano 92.3%). ## Product Pages - [Homepage](https://www.evidano.com/): Product overview, key features, accuracy comparison, plans, and security. Served in the visitor's own language (50 languages, picked from location with a toggle to change it); every other page is English. - [Features](https://www.evidano.com/features): Full catalogue of every feature in Evidano. - [Plans & Pricing](https://www.evidano.com/plans): Subscription tiers and pricing details. - [Pricing Comparison](https://www.evidano.com/pricing-comparison): Cost comparison against other qualitative analysis tools. - [Data Security Comparison](https://www.evidano.com/data-security-comparison): Security posture comparison against other qualitative analysis tools. - [Speech to Text](https://www.evidano.com/speech-to-text): Audio and video transcription capabilities, with a page per supported language. - [Image to Text](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text): Handwriting, manuscript, scan and PDF transcription, with a searchable directory of every supported script, hand and document type. - [Translation](https://www.evidano.com/translation): Document and transcript translation, with a page per language pair. - [Get Data](https://www.evidano.com/getdata): Web and social media data collection. - [AI Chatbot](https://www.evidano.com/ai-chatbot): Chat with documents, spreadsheets, or a standalone AI assistant. - [Free AI Detector](https://www.evidano.com/ai-detection): Browser-based AI text detector. Free, unlimited, no sign-up, and the text never leaves the browser. - [Bulk AI Detector](https://www.evidano.com/ai-detection/bulk): The same detector run across many files at once, with CSV, XLSX, and per-file report exports. - [AI Avatar Demo](https://www.evidano.com/ai-avatar-demo): Interactive AI avatar interviewer demo. ## Image to Text Pages Each language below links to its Image to Text page. Languages with several named hands or document types link to a hub that lists a page per hand; each of those pages shows 3–5 real sample pages from public collections beside their transcriptions, explains the letterforms and abbreviations of the hand, why generic OCR fails on it, and how to prompt and review a transcription. **Languages with named historical hands and document types** - [English](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text/english): Old English Insular Manuscripts; English Manuscripts; Later Middle English Manuscripts; Tudor and Jacobean Secretary, Italic, and Mixed Hands; Round Hand and Georgian Administrative Records; Handwritten Content; Forms and Questionnaires; Scanned Documents; Business and Financial Documents; Screenshots and Digital Captures; Educational Materials; Whiteboards and Workshop Materials; Signs, Labels, and Printed Materials; Official and Identity Documents; Tables and Structured Content. - [Latin](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text/latin): Roman Capitals and Cursive Documents; Late Antique Uncial and Half-Uncial Codices; Insular, Visigothic, and Beneventan Latin; Carolingian and Romanesque Minuscule; Gothic and Humanistic Latin Manuscripts. - [German](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text/german): Old High German in Carolingian and Insular Manuscripts; Middle High German Gothic Book Hands; Late Medieval and Early Modern German Chancery Hands; German Kurrent Administrative and Personal Hands; Sütterlin and Late Kurrent. - [French](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text/french): Old French in Caroline and Proto-Gothic Manuscripts; French Gothic Textualis Manuscripts; French Bâtarde and Cursive Documentary Hands; French Renaissance Secretary and Humanistic Hands; French Notarial and Administrative Hands. - [Spanish](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text/spanish): Iberian Visigothic Manuscripts and Charters; Castilian Gothic and Albalá Hands; Cortesana Court and Chancery Documents; Procesal and Procesal Encadenada Records; Spanish Colonial Humanistic and Mixed Hands. - [Arabic](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text/arabic): Early Islamic Arabic Papyri and Administrative Hands; Early Qurʾanic and Kufic Codices; Mashriqi Naskh and Related Book Hands; Maghribi and Andalusi Manuscripts; Ottoman-Era Arabic Naskh and Ruqʿah Documents. - [Ottoman Turkish](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text/ottoman-turkish): Early Ottoman Naskh and Taʿliq Manuscripts; Classical Ottoman Naskh and Nastaʿliq Manuscripts; Ottoman Dīvānī Imperial and Diplomatic Documents; Ottoman Siyāqat Fiscal and Land Registers; Printed Ottoman Turkish and Ruqʿah Manuscript Material. - [Italian](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text/italian): Italian Vernacular Gothic Textualis; Italian Mercantesca Accounts and Correspondence; Italian Cancelleresca and Notarial Hands; Italian Humanistic Minuscule and Cursive; Early Modern Italian Italic and Mixed Documentary Hands. - [Dutch](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text/dutch): Middle Dutch Gothic Book Hands; Burgundian and Habsburg Dutch Chancery Hands; Dutch Republic Commercial and Secretary Hands; Dutch East India Company and Colonial Records; Dutch Church, Civil, and Notarial Hands. - [Portuguese](https://www.evidano.com/image-to-text/portuguese): Portuguese Visigothic Manuscripts and Charters; 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Page 1 is a hub: an evidence explorer over every published study, evaluation and case study that used Evidano, filterable by method, sector and data type; the methodology guides listed below; comparisons against NVivo, MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, Delve and Dedoose; and capability pages by data type. Below the hub sits the chronological archive of several hundred articles on qualitative research methods, AI-assisted coding, interview and survey design, transcription and translation, and commentary connecting newly published studies to reproducible analysis workflows. - Individual posts live at `/blogs/{id}` (numeric id), e.g. https://www.evidano.com/blogs/61. Methodology guides live at `/blogs/{method-slug}`, e.g. https://www.evidano.com/blogs/realist-evaluation. Every post is server-rendered HTML with `BlogPosting` JSON-LD carrying headline, description, `datePublished`, `wordCount`, `keywords` and `articleSection`. - Browse by page: `/blogs?page={n}`, 10 posts per page. Filter with `/blogs?category={category}` (and optionally `&subcategory={subcategory}`); search with `/blogs?q={terms}`. `/blogs?category=Research%20Methods` lists the methodology guides only. - [Blog RSS feed](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/rss.xml): the 50 most recent posts with titles, links, descriptions, publication dates and topic categories. This is the cheapest way to enumerate recent articles without parsing HTML. - The [sitemap](https://www.evidano.com/sitemap.xml) lists every post URL with its last-modified date. - [Methodology directory](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/methods): A reference entry for all 116 research methodologies Evidano supports, across academic research (42), programme evaluation (36), and market and product research (38). Each entry explains what the method claims and cites three references. Every DOI on the page resolves to a real published source; a committed script re-checks the whole corpus against the Crossref REST API and the DOI Foundation handle API, and nothing ships unverified. The page emits `DefinedTermSet` / `DefinedTerm` JSON-LD with one term per method and a stable per-method anchor, so a specific methodology can be cited as `/blogs/methods#{method-slug}`. ### Methodology guides Vendor-neutral, citation-backed explainers written for researchers rather than for buyers: what each method claims, where it comes from, when to use it and when not to, how it is actually done, a worked example, its own failure modes, how its quality is judged, its limitations, and — briefly and honestly — where software helps and where it does not. Methods without a full guide yet have a reference entry in the directory above. **Content and Framework Approaches** - [Conventional Qualitative Content Analysis: categories from the data](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/conventional-qualitative-content-analysis): Hsieh and Shannon’s conventional approach, the preparation–organisation–reporting sequence, and the honest difference between content analysis and thematic analysis. - [Framework Analysis: the matrix method for applied research](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/framework-analysis): Ritchie and Spencer’s framework method, step by step: charting data into a matrix, keeping cases readable across themes, and where its transparency is oversold. - [Template Analysis: a coding template you are meant to revise](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/template-analysis): King’s template analysis builds a hierarchical coding template on a subset of data, then revises it against the rest. How it differs from framework and thematic analysis. - [Directed Content Analysis: coding with theory up front](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/directed-content-analysis): The deductive branch of content analysis — codebooks built from existing theory, a live residue category, and reporting what the framework could not hold. - [Summative Content Analysis: from word counts to meaning](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/summative-content-analysis): The two-stage method: quantify manifest terms, then interpret each occurrence in context. When counting words is defensible research and when it is a concordance. - [Document Analysis: reading records as evidence](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/document-or-textual-analysis): Analysing archival, policy and organisational documents on two planes — content and artefact — with provenance, appraisal criteria, and the silences as findings. **Customer Experience and Voice-of-Customer Research** - [Review and Feedback Mining: analysing text you did not collect](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/review-or-feedback-mining): How to analyse reviews, support tickets and open-ended feedback without over-reading them. Selection bias, sentiment’s limits, and what the corpus can support. - [Voice-of-Customer Interviews: from customer words to design requirements](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/voice-of-customer-interviews): Eliciting needs in customers’ own language, structuring them without losing the voice, and keeping the requirement-to-quote chain intact — Griffin and Hauser’s findings. **Developmental and Utilization-Focused Evaluation** - [Developmental Evaluation: evaluating something still being invented](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/developmental-evaluation): Developmental evaluation supports innovation under uncertainty rather than judging a fixed model. What the evaluator does, and the independence problem it creates. - [Formative Evaluation: evaluating to improve, while it still can](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/formative-evaluation): Feedback cycles paced to the programme’s decision calendar, the change log that separates improvement evidence from cheerleading, and the re-test discipline. - [Utilization-Focused Evaluation: designing for use from day one](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/utilization-focused-evaluation): Patton’s framework — named primary intended users, negotiated intended uses, and every design decision run through the test of serving both. **Ethnographic and Observational Methods** - [Classical Ethnography: long-term fieldwork as method](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/classical-ethnography): Sustained presence, field-note discipline, thick description, and the say–do gap as subject matter — with how ethnographic quality is actually judged. - [Netnography: ethnography of online communities](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/netnography): Kozinets’s method for studying online communities — site selection, the three data streams, and the consent problems public data does not solve. - [Participant Observation: watching by joining](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/participant-observation): Observer roles, layered field notes, reactivity management, and pairing observed acts with participants’ accounts — inside ethnography or any study design. **Evidence Synthesis** - [Meta-ethnography: synthesising qualitative studies interpretively](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/meta-ethnography): Noblit and Hare’s seven phases, reciprocal and refutational translation, line of argument synthesis, and the eMERGe reporting standard for getting it published. - [Systematic Literature Review: a step-by-step guide](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/systematic-literature-review): Protocol, search, screening, extraction, appraisal and PRISMA reporting — with the process failures that sink reviews at peer review. - [Scoping Review: mapping a field before reviewing it](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/scoping-review): The Arksey and O’Malley stages, PRISMA-ScR reporting, and the analytic charting step where most scoping reviews go soft. - [Rapid Review: systematic evidence on a deadline](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/rapid-review): Declared, costed shortcuts to the systematic method — which abbreviations are defensible, and how to report what was traded away. - [Narrative Synthesis: integrating studies you cannot pool](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/narrative-synthesis): Structured integration of heterogeneous studies — the four-element guidance, SWiM reporting, and the vote-counting trap. - [Integrative Review: synthesising across study designs](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/integrative-review): The Whittemore and Knafl framework for reviews spanning quantitative, qualitative and theoretical sources — and the matrix stage where integration actually happens. - [Meta-synthesis: integrating qualitative findings across studies](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/meta-synthesis): First-, second- and third-order constructs, thematic synthesis, and grading confidence in synthesised findings with CERQual. **Exploratory and Contextual Inquiry** - [In-Depth Interviews: getting past the first answer](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/in-depth-interviews): Guide design, probing technique, sample logic and analysis — the craft that separates accounts from rehearsed answers. - [Focus Groups: using group dynamics as the instrument](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/focus-groups): What groups uniquely produce — interaction data, shared vocabulary, norm visibility — with composition, moderation and group-level analysis. - [Contextual Inquiry: interviewing people inside their work](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/contextual-inquiry): The master–apprentice method: observing real work while asking about it, sharing interpretations in the moment, and consolidating into work models. - [Diary Studies and Experience Sampling: research across time](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/diary-studies-or-experience-sampling): Interval, signal and event-contingent designs, the participant burden budget, compliance engineering, and analysing within-person change. **Grounded Theory** - [Constructivist Grounded Theory: Charmaz’s approach](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/constructivist-grounded-theory): How Charmaz’s version differs from Glaser and Strauss: coding with gerunds, theoretical sampling, memo-writing, and what “constructivist” actually changes in practice. - [Situational Analysis: mapping the situation, not just the process](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/situational-analysis): Clarke’s extension of grounded theory replaces the core-category search with three maps: situational, social worlds/arenas, and positional. What each one does. - [Classic Grounded Theory: the Glaserian approach](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/classic-grounded-theory): Emergence over forcing, theoretical sampling, saturation and the memo discipline — what the original version requires and how it differs from its descendants. - [Straussian Grounded Theory: open, axial, and selective coding](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/straussian-grounded-theory): The structured version — what each coding phase does, the coding paradigm, and how to use the scaffolding without letting it do the thinking. - [Constant Comparative Method: the engine of grounded theory](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/constant-comparative-method): The three comparisons — incident to incident, incident to category, category to category — used rigorously inside or outside grounded theory. - [Gioia Method: inductive theory with a defensible data structure](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/gioia-method): First-order concepts, second-order themes, aggregate dimensions — and why the data structure is evidence of the analysis, not the theory itself. **Implementation and Process Evaluation** - [Normalization Process Theory: why interventions fail to stick](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/normalization-process-theory-studies): NPT explains what makes a new practice become routine work. The four constructs, how to use them in a process evaluation, and where the framework is over-applied. - [Process Evaluation: what was actually delivered, to whom, and why](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/process-evaluation): The MRC framework — implementation, mechanisms of impact, and context — and the linking analyses that explain outcome results instead of just reporting them. **Narrative and Discourse Studies** - [Discourse Analysis: what language is doing, not just saying](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/discourse-analysis): Discourse analysis treats talk and text as social action. Interpretative repertoires, the action orientation, how to do it, and the difference from content analysis. - [Narrative Analysis: reading the story, not just the content](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/narrative-analysis): Labov’s structural model and Riessman’s four approaches. How narrative analysis treats form as data, what it can show that coding cannot, and when to avoid it. - [Critical Discourse Analysis: language, power, ideology](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/critical-discourse-analysis): What CDA analyses — how texts enact and naturalise power — with the Fairclough and van Dijk traditions, a defensible procedure, and the advocacy trap. - [Conversation Analysis: the machinery of talk-in-interaction](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/conversation-analysis): Turn-taking, sequence organisation, repair and Jefferson transcription — and why the method refuses to explain talk with imported context. **Needs and Jobs-to-be-Done Research** - [Jobs-to-be-Done Interviews: the job, not the customer](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/jobs-to-be-done-interviews): JTBD reframes demand around the progress someone is trying to make. The switch interview, the four forces, and where the framework outruns its evidence. **Outcome and Impact Assessment Methods** - [Outcome Harvesting: a practical guide](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/outcome-harvesting): How to run an outcome harvest: the six steps, what counts as an outcome, how substantiation works, and when harvesting beats a conventional results framework. - [Outcome Mapping: measuring the change you can actually influence](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/outcome-mapping): Outcome mapping tracks behaviour change in the partners a programme works through, not the impact it cannot control. The three stages, progress markers, and real limits. - [Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): a practical guide](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/qualitative-comparative-analysis): How QCA finds the combinations of conditions that produce an outcome: calibration, truth tables, consistency and coverage, and the errors that discredit results. - [Ripple Effects Mapping: capturing the effects nobody planned](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/ripple-effects-mapping): A participatory group method for surfacing the secondary and unintended effects of a programme. How a REM session runs, how the map is coded, and what it cannot show. - [The Success Case Method: learning from the extremes](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/success-case-method): Brinkerhoff’s method deliberately studies the best and worst cases rather than the average. How it works, what it can support, and the sampling objection it must answer. **Participatory and Collaborative Approaches** - [Most Significant Change: story-based evaluation done rigorously](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/most-significant-change-technique): MSC collects stories of change and has stakeholders select the most significant ones. How the selection process creates the data, and why the technique is often misused. - [Participatory Evaluation: stakeholders as evaluators, not data sources](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/participatory-evaluation): The practical and transformative streams, what participation changes at each evaluation stage, and how to keep shared inquiry rigorous. - [Community-Based Participatory Research: partnership as method](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/community-based-participatory-research): Equitable partnership structures, co-designed studies, shared data ownership, and action as an output — with the trust timeline nobody budgets. - [Photovoice: participants photograph the evidence](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/photovoice): Wang and Burris’s method — participants document their reality, analyse it through SHOWeD dialogue, and carry the findings to power. - [Empowerment Evaluation: building a programme’s capacity to evaluate itself](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/empowerment-evaluation): Fetterman’s approach — mission, taking stock, planning for the future — with the evaluator as coach and the independence debate faced squarely. **Phenomenological Analysis** - [Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA): a practical guide](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/interpretative-phenomenological-analysis): IPA studies how a few people make sense of a significant experience. The double hermeneutic, idiographic case-by-case procedure, and the four markers of quality. - [Descriptive Phenomenology: the Husserlian tradition in practice](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/descriptive-phenomenology): Bracketing, the reduction, meaning units and the essential structure — Giorgi’s four steps and how the tradition differs from its interpretive cousins. - [Hermeneutic Phenomenology: interpreting lived experience](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/hermeneutic-phenomenology): The Heidegger and van Manen tradition — why it rejects bracketing, how the hermeneutic circle works in practice, and what rigorous interpretation looks like. - [Transcendental Phenomenology: the Moustakas method](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/transcendental-phenomenology): Epoché, horizonalization, textural and structural description, and essence synthesis — the most procedural of the phenomenologies, done with actual seeing. **Realist and Causal Analysis Approaches** - [Contribution Analysis: a step-by-step guide](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/contribution-analysis): How to run a contribution analysis: build the contribution story, test it against evidence, and address rival explanations when no counterfactual exists. - [Contribution Tracing: Bayesian confidence in contribution claims](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/contribution-tracing): Contribution tracing combines process tracing with explicit Bayesian updating to put a defensible confidence level on a contribution claim. How it works, and its limits. - [Process Tracing: testing causal mechanisms in a single case](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/process-tracing): How process tracing establishes causation without a comparison case: the four evidentiary tests, what counts as diagnostic evidence, and where the method is misapplied. - [Realist Evaluation: context, mechanism, outcome](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/realist-evaluation): What realist evaluation actually asks, how to build and test a CMO configuration, where the mechanism concept gets misused, and how realist quality is judged. - [Realist Synthesis: reviewing evidence for mechanisms, not averages](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/realist-synthesis): Pawson’s theory-driven review — programme theories as the unit of synthesis, CMO configurations across studies, and RAMESES reporting standards. **Social and Cultural Insights** - [Social Listening: qualitative analysis of public digital talk](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/social-listening): Beyond dashboards — query design, cleaning and stratified reading of social data, coding meaning rather than polarity, and the representativeness caveats. **Thematic Analysis** - [Reflexive Thematic Analysis: the Braun and Clarke approach](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/reflexive-thematic-analysis): The six phases, why themes are generated rather than found, what “saturation” and codebooks have to do with a method that rejects both, and how to report it. - [Semantic Coding: staying at the surface on purpose](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/semantic-coding): Thematic coding at the level of what participants explicitly said — when the surface is the right site, and the discipline that keeps it checkable. - [Latent Coding: interpreting the meaning beneath the words](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/latent-coding): Coding for assumptions, framings and implicit patterns — what latent themes require as evidence, and how to keep interpretation from becoming invention. **Theory-Based and Logic Approaches** - [Theory of Change: mapping how a programme is supposed to work](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/theory-of-change): Outcomes pathways, assumptions made testable, and evaluation designed against the theory — plus the ritual-diagram failure mode. - [Logic Model: the one-page programme summary that earns its keep](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/logic-model): Inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, impact — building a model that plans and evaluates, and the output–outcome line readers must not miss. - [Logical Framework Approach: the logframe, used properly](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/logical-framework-approach): The 4×4 matrix’s vertical and horizontal logic, indicators with means of verification, kill-tested assumptions, and versioning against reality. **User Experience and Human-Centered Design** - [Usability Testing: what watching five people actually tells you](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/usability-testing): The five-user rule and its real conditions, how to write tasks that do not leak the answer, severity rating, and why satisfaction scores mislead. - [Think-Aloud Protocol: hearing reasoning as it happens](https://www.evidano.com/blogs/think-aloud-protocol): Concurrent and retrospective designs, the Ericsson–Simon rules that keep verbal reports valid, and analysing streams against task state. ## Trust & Compliance - [Data Security](https://www.evidano.com/data-security): How Evidano secures and handles your data. - [Privacy Policy](https://www.evidano.com/privacy-policy): Privacy practices and user data policy. - [Terms of Service](https://www.evidano.com/terms-service): Terms governing use of Evidano. - [Environmental Impact](https://www.evidano.com/environmental-impact): Sustainability and environmental commitments. ## Optional Secondary pages — safe to skip when context is limited: - [Login](https://www.evidano.com/login): Sign in to an existing Evidano account. - [Register](https://www.evidano.com/register): Create a new Evidano account. - [Sitemap](https://www.evidano.com/sitemap.xml): Complete machine-readable URL index, including every blog post, case study, research spotlight, per-language transcription and translation page, and every Image to Text language hub and script page.