About VizSeek

VizSeek makes industrial search visual, faster, and easier.

Search technical data across secure systems by image, shape, drawing, 3D model, and text.

VizSeek is not web search. It searches within each client's secure database and helps industrial teams find the information they need by shape, or by combining shape and text.

Search modes

Visual + text

Indexed systems

PLM, ERP, PDM

Outcome

Faster reuse

About the Platform

Industrial visual search across engineering data

secure systems

Inputs

2D drawing

Find similar geometry from scanned technical drawings.

3D model

Search for existing parts and assemblies across connected systems.

Image + text

Combine visual search with keywords to improve precision.

System view

Connected platforms

CAD PLM ERP PDM SharePoint

Search behavior

Exact matches appear first, followed by similar results ranked by similarity.

Deployment

SaaS-first with on-premises support for stricter security requirements.

What Is VizSeek?

The intelligent visual search engine

VizSeek changes how industry searches. Similar to a search engine, it indexes content and makes it easy to search, but it is purpose-built for industrial data rather than public web pages.

This makes design reuse more achievable and helps teams tackle part duplication, quoting and procurement, tooling reuse, service and maintenance efficiency, and aftermarket part search.

The goal is simple: help users resolve technical problems quickly without forcing them to become experts in a rigid classification system.

Indexes data from multiple locations

VizSeek works across large heterogeneous data sources and does not rely on the data being perfectly structured first.

Uses geometric similarity

The platform uses shape and visual information to identify exact matches and similar matches accurately.

System independent

VizSeek can be added alongside existing PLM, ERP, SCM, or SharePoint-style systems to improve search and design reuse.

Structured vs unstructured search

The live About page frames the value of visual search through a familiar contrast: highly organized systems are useful, but search engines are often faster because they work more like the human mind.

VizSeek extends that idea into industrial workflows, making it easier to find relevant parts and technical content without relying only on structured metadata.

Search the way people think

People naturally describe what they need or select from attributes such as size or color instead of memorizing classification rules.

Faster than rigid organization

The VizSeek About page compares this difference to finding a book in a library versus finding it on Google.

Visual search fits human intuition

Visual search mirrors how the brain uses past experience to recognize and compare objects.

Traditional classification has gaps

The About page argues that heavy investment in PLM and ERP systems still leaves companies struggling to find reusable parts across many databases.

Hard to maintain

Structured classification systems can be expensive to upkeep and difficult to enforce consistently across the company.

Data is spread out

Design information often lives across many databases, which makes reuse difficult even when teams have modern enterprise systems.

Reuse remains difficult

Engineers still struggle to locate existing parts that could be reused instead of recreated from scratch.

Search closes the gap

VizSeek improves discovery across those systems without requiring a perfect company-wide classification rollout.

How is VizSeek different?

VizSeek positions itself as more accurate, more versatile across file types, and easier to integrate than narrower visual search tools.

Accurate

VizSeek identifies the exact matching product within a category, while other tools may only recognize the broader product category.

Versatile

It supports image, 2D, PDF, hand-sketch, and 3D workflows, including cross-file-type search such as image-to-3D or drawing-to-3D.

Easy to integrate

As a SaaS offering, VizSeek provides API-based search without requiring customers to build and maintain heavy search infrastructure.

File types, indexing, and integration

A major part of the About page is practical implementation detail. VizSeek does not just describe the concept of visual search. It explains how indexing works, how integration works, and how the deployment model adapts to customer security needs.

That makes the page read less like a brand story and more like a technical overview for industrial teams evaluating fit.

40+ file types

VizSeek says it can locate the same shape across over 40 file types, including image, CAD, PDF, office, and 3D formats.

Cloud indexing workflow

Customers upload content and VizSeek creates shape signatures through resource-intensive indexing on its server clusters.

Desktop upload and sync

The About page mentions a desktop app used for uploads and ongoing syncing.

On-premises availability

If files are sensitive, VizSeek can be installed behind the customer firewall to meet stronger security requirements.

API integration

After indexing, teams can send search queries through APIs and display the results inside existing websites or mobile apps.

SaaS-first, flexible deployment

VizSeek says SaaS is the easiest path to implementation, but it also supports on-premises deployments.

How accurate is visual search?

The About page closes by clarifying that visual search is not text search. It works by similarity, not keyword matching, which makes expectations much clearer for technical teams evaluating search quality.

Results are ranked by similarity

Visual search returns the images or 3D models most similar to the input and orders them by similarity.

Exact matches come first

If an exact match exists in the indexed data, VizSeek says that result should appear first.

Similarity stays within the indexed domain

The page uses the example of a shoe searched against a power-tool dataset to show that results still come from the indexed set.

Talk to VizSeek about your use case

Questions about APIs, indexing, SaaS, on-premises deployment, or industrial fit? The live About page ends by inviting visitors to get in touch.