The project
The Socface project develops automatic handwriting recognition technologies to analyze all census lists from 1836 to 1936 (i.e. 20 censuses) and produce a database of individuals who lived in France during this period.
About us
Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Socface project brings together archivists, demographers, economists, historians and computer scientists working together to develop technologies for the large-scale processing of huge series of historical documents.
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Recollection of the images
Contact and information on the project for the archivists who would like to be part of it.
Schedule
From September 2021 to March 2025, we will collect, process, standardize and analyze individual data from the French censuses.

Recollection of the images
Contact

Contact

If you are an archivist wishing to be involved in the project or if you simply need more information, don’t hesitate to contact us:
contact @ socface.org

Mise en oeuvre

Les images des listes nominatives des recensements sont conservées dans les services d'archives départementales ou municipales. L'accès à ces images ne pourra se faire qu'après accord des services d'archives concernés. Sans l'accord des services, les images ne seront pas incluses dans le projet et ne seront donc pas traitées.