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What you get back

Counts you can check, one by one.

Every counted item is a finding with its own timestamp and frame, so the total is never a black box.

Describe what to count

Vehicles entering, birds at a feeder, bundles leaving a line. Add attributes like colour, type or direction.

Identify types and species

Tell white-tailed deer from fisher, cars from vans, or adult birds from juveniles, with the frame to confirm each.

Across cameras and clocks

Counts can be split by camera, and each finding can carry the camera's own date and time.

How it looks

Question in. Timestamped findings out.

Product captures from Docsie's test environment, October 2026, on CC BY footage and a screen recording generated for testing. No customer footage.

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Sightings by species, with the camera's clock

19 white-tailed deer sightings plus fisher, cottontail, opossum and fox, each with the date and time read off the image.

Sightings by species, with the camera's clock

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Visits counted and told apart

Goldfinch visits to a feeder: 4 juvenile and 6 adult, each with its time and frame.

Visits counted and told apart

Open the screenshot to inspect the full detail.

Questions to ask

Things people count in video

Real questions from our live-examples corpus, each paired with a public video. Results are published as Docsie produces them.

Count birds in video: goldfinches at a feeder camera

“Count the goldfinches in this feeder-cam video. For each clip, read the burned-in date and time, give the maximum number of birds on the feeder at once with the timestamp of that moment…” Source: Garden Birds Galore, CC BY.

Clean room gowning check on satellite processing footage

“For each shot of people in this clean room footage of the JPSS-2 satellite solar array deployment, count the people and check whether each wears a full clean room suit: hood, face mask…” Source: NOAASatellites, CC BY.

Detect hard hats and hi-vis on a power line crew from drone video

“This drone footage follows a utility crew stringing three-phase wire along a rural road. In each scene, count the crew members, bucket trucks and wire reel trailers, note whether each crew…” Source: Pilot of the Countryside, CC BY.

Count cells in microscope video: Paramecium in a hay infusion

“Estimate how many Paramecium cells are in the field of view in this phone-through-the-microscope video. Pick at least three moments, give their timestamps, and for each give a count, or an…” Source: PPT MAN, CC BY.

Detect commercial trucks and read highway signs in raw dash cam footage

“In this raw highway dash cam clip, find every commercial vehicle (semi-trailer, cement or bulk trailer, box truck, pickup towing) and every overhead or roadside sign. For each vehicle give…” Source: Tech & Crypto, CC BY.

How many steps does it take? Adding teachers and learners in Moodle, counted from video

“Count each admin action in this Moodle walkthrough (navigation clicks, form fields filled, files chosen, buttons pressed, role selections). List each with timestamp, the on-screen label and…” Source: Moodle, CC BY.

Count objects in video in three steps.

From footage to a tally with evidence.

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Add the footage

Upload a file or paste a link.

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Say what to look for

Ask in plain language, or start from this preset.

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Check and export

Open the frame behind each finding, then export the report, frames and CSV.

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Common questions

Counting and detection

Using Video Analysis

Q: How do I count objects in a video?

A: Describe what to count. Docsie logs each occurrence with its timestamp and frame, then gives you the total.

Q: Can it count people or vehicles?

A: Yes, for example people passing an entrance or vehicles entering a lot. It counts what is visible; it does not identify who anyone is.

Q: Can it tell types or species apart?

A: Yes. Ask for the distinction you need, and confirm each one on its frame.

Q: How accurate are the counts?

A: Each count links to its frame, so you can spot-check the result. Busy or low-light scenes need more review.

Q: Does it do face recognition?

A: No. It works with what is visible, such as type, colour and behaviour, never identity.

Q: How long can a video be?

A: Up to 40 minutes per video. Longer recordings are split, and the findings are merged onto one timeline.

Q: Where does my footage go?

A: Use Docsie's cloud, or deploy Docsie on your own infrastructure so footage stays inside your network.

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Count it once, with proof.

Every number backed by a frame.

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