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Video Search and Discovery

Find what you need and share knowledge faster than ever before with Panopto’s rapid video search and discovery solutions.

Panopto does even more to help your company put video to work.

From recording and editing to compressing and captioning, Panopto is an all-in-one platform that takes the hard work out of producing and managing a corporate video library, so your people can use video to be more productive.

Search Every Word Spoken

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) captures and indexes every word spoken by anyone in your videos.

Search Every Word On-Screen

Optical character recognition (OCR) captures and indexes every word that appears on-screen in your videos.

Slide ingestion technology indexes every word that appears in slide decks, including speaker notes.

Search Digital Notes

Panopto lets you take digital notes right in the video while you watch. These notes can also be searched in Panopto.

Smart Search by Panopto.

Panopto’s Smart Search is the most comprehensive way to search the content inside your video library. The analysts agree — Forrester Research reports, Panopto has “the best support for video search.”

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Search inside videos in fifteen languages.

Smart Search supports fifteen languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Hungarian, and Polish. Video content in any of these languages can be automatically indexed and instantly searched in the respective language.

Share and acquire knowledge more efficiently.

Discover something new right on your home screen.

With Panopto, you can create an organic environment for sharing and expanding knowledge through on-demand video that lets your people learn like they do on YouTube.

Panopto’s video tagging feature enables you to apply tags to videos and to manage the set of tags available, increasing the visibility of video content across your team, department, or your entire organization. By subscribing to other users and tags, you can find new videos and information from the people and topics you’re most interested in right on your home screen. You can also browse videos by tags to dive deeper into knowledge that’s most relevant to you at any moment.

Search your video library from anywhere.

Video search federation with OpenSearch.

Good news: Panopto’s video search engine connects with your LMS, CMS, collaboration platforms and more. That means your teams can find relevant video content where ever they go to look for information.

Thanks to OpenSearch federation, you can securely link Panopto’s Smart Search engine with other tools and applications used by your organization and view aggregate search results all in one place. This means you can search your Panopto video library while still within Slack, Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Saba, Salesforce, SharePoint On-Premises, and more.

And with OpenSearch, you can even search your private video library from your browser’s address or search bar. Just add Panopto to your browser’s list of available search providers and you can get Smart Search video search results without ever leaving Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Edge, or Safari.

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