Introducing AI Automapping: Say Goodbye to Manual Area Mapping

If you've ever run an epaper, you know the routine. Every single day, someone on your team sits down, opens each page, and manually draws boxes around every article — one by one, page after page, edition after edition. It's tedious, it eats into your production time, and it's exactly the kind of repetitive task technology should be solving.

That's why we built AI Automapping.

What is AI Automapping?

AI Automapping is a new AI-powered tool from Vedanta Software that automatically detects news articles on your epaper pages and creates area maps for them — without any manual drawing. Upload your page, and AI Automapping identifies the article boundaries and generates clickable area maps in seconds, not minutes per page.

It's now live in public beta at ai.vedantasoftware.com, and free to try during the beta period.

The Problem We're Solving

Area mapping has always been a core part of running a professional epaper — it's what lets your readers tap or click on a story to read it, share it, or clip it. Our Area Map Editor has helped hundreds of publishers do this manually for years. But manual mapping has a real cost:

• Time: A single edition with 10-12 pages can take 30-45 minutes of manual mapping work, every single day.
• Consistency: Manual mapping quality depends on who's doing it and how much time they have — especially on deadline-heavy days.
• Scale: For publishers running multiple editions or expanding to new markets, manual mapping simply doesn't scale.

AI Automapping tackles all three. What used to take the better part of an hour now takes minutes — freeing your editorial team to focus on what actually matters: the news.

How It Works

1. Upload your epaper page (PDF or image) to AI Automapping.
2. AI detects the article regions on the page automatically — headlines, columns, and article boundaries.
3. Review and publish — the generated area map is ready to use on your epaper, with the option to fine-tune manually if needed.

You're never locked out of manual control. If you prefer to adjust a map by hand for a specific page, our Area Map Editor is still there, working alongside AI Automapping.

Who This Is For

AI Automapping is built for:

• Daily newspapers publishing multiple editions who need mapping done fast and consistently.
• Growing publishers who don't have a large team dedicated to manual page work.
• Any Epaper CMS Cloud user looking to save editorial hours without switching platforms.

Credit-Based, Pay-As-You-Go

AI Automapping runs on a simple credit system — 1 credit maps 1 page. No subscriptions, no forced upgrades. During the public beta, new users get free trial credits to test it on their own editions before committing.

Try It Today

AI Automapping is available now in public beta. If you're currently using Epaper CMS Cloud — or any epaper platform — you can try it for free and see the time savings for yourself.

👉 Get your free Automapping beta trial credits

This is just the first step in bringing AI-powered automation to Vedanta Software's publishing tools. We built our Area Mapping technology over a decade of working closely with newsrooms — AI Automapping is us taking that same expertise and making it faster for the next decade of digital publishing.

Questions about AI Automapping? Reach out at contact@vedantasoftware.com or call +91-9977139265 — we're happy to walk you through it.