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Socface The Socface project brings together archivists, demographers, economists, historians, and computer scientists to develop technologies for the large-scale processing of huge series of historical documents. Based on automated handwriting …

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Recollection of the images The recollection of the images is almost achieved. The progression of the project can be followed on a separate website: …

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In a few words The Socface project aims at developing automatic handwriting recognition technologies to transcribe all the census lists from 1836 to 1936 (i.e. 20 censuses). The information gathered will be used to produce a database of all individuals …

Partners Zoom sur l'image INED Zoom sur l'image Zoom sur l'image Zoom sur l'image Located within the Ministry of Culture, the Service interministériel des Archives de France (SIAF) defines, coordinates and evaluates the national policy in terms of …

Processing the pictures The first step of the project is to get millions of images from a hundred archive depositories, understand the document structure, and recognize the handwritten text. A portal will allow archive depositories and their publishers to …

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