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AI-Assisted Extraction of Wildlife Trade Permit Records

Accountable

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

Functional Modes

Sensing (Perceptive AI)

Human executes

Purpose

Enforcement

Input Dataset

Sensitive personal information Identifiable data

Algorithm or Model

Computer Vision

Output Dataset

Operational data Identifiable data

Details

This system uses optical character recognition and a large language model to convert scanned PDF copies of CITES wildlife trade permits into structured digital database records. It is used internally by Government of Canada employees in the Enforcement Branch and Canadian Wildlife Service. Personal information is involved, but affected individuals are not informed that AI is being used to process their permit documents.