Which AI Processing for Your Collection? Test the Models ➙
Multimodal Artificial Intelligence
for Cultural Heritage

Discover Your Heritage Collections with Artificial Intelligence
AI Expertise Tailored
to Each Heritage Collection
Whether you manage a cultural institution, a conservation center, or a public administration, our AI solutions adapt to the specific nature of your documents and to your professional objectives.Public Administration
Museums






Libraries
Archives
Enhancing Heritage Corpora
Give a new dimension to your collections.
Do you own digitized treasures that are difficult to consult? We analyze your images to automatically generate rich metadata and enable full-text search.
✧ Enrich your inventories without tedious manual data entry.
✧ Make your collections searchable by keywords, places, or people.
Industrial-Scale Document Production
Scaling up your document processing.
You are familiar with the challenges of HTR and OCR on massive volumes. Teklia equips you with Arkindex, our Data Factory designed to orchestrate the processing of millions of documents. It integrates with your existing systems and guarantees sovereign and reliable document production.
✧ Centralize your workflows: annotations, model comparison, fine-tuning, deployment, quality control, and error recovery in a single tool.
✧ Stay in control: an open-source, flexible platform that can be trained on your own data.
Our Data Factory: The Arkindex Platform
With our Arkindex software, automate large-scale indexing and cataloging. Arkindex is the essential platform for comparing the performance of different AI models on your corpus.
Data Protection and Transparency
We ensure that personal and sensitive data are handled with the utmost care within a secure framework. Arkindex is hosted in Europe and complies with GDPR standards.
Open Source
We publish the source code of our software and our research to facilitate the adoption of AI in the archival and heritage fields.
Responsible AI
Whenever possible, we use smaller and more efficient models to reduce our carbon footprint.
From Raw Images to Actionable Knowledge: Our Processing Workflow
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Centralize Your Sources
We collect your documents, regardless of their format or location.
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✦ Arkindex organizes your corpora into coherent projects, ready for industrial processing
➙ Flexible bulk import of PDFs and images (JP2, TIFF, JPEG) from your servers, hard drives, or via the IIIF protocol.
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Reveal Content Through AI
Our algorithms read everything: printed text, ancient manuscripts, and even page structure.
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✦ Arkindex integrates generic models or trains custom models (fine-tuning).
➙ Application of high-performance deep learning models for layout segmentation, HTR, and OCR.
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Enrich the Data
The software does more than read, it understands. It identifies names, places, and dates to classify your documents.
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✦ Arkindex interprets document content to create metadata.
➙ Transformation of raw text into structured data using Named Entity Recognition (NER) and automatic classification.
4
Enhance and Share
Your collections become searchable via a search engine or ready for online publication.
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✦ Arkindex enables long-term archiving, integration with your databases, or publication on your web portals.
➙ Standardized export (XML-ALTO, METS, TEI, JSON, CSV) or direct integration via our open API.
They Transform Cultural Heritage with TEKLIA
Discover our major processing projects on historical and heritage collections.
Musée Guimet - HikarIA
Intelligent Indexing of Photographic Collections
Making the Invisible Accessible
✦ Challenge: Identifying the visual and semantic content of thousands of poorly documented historical photographs.
✦ Solution: Application of computer vision and metadata generation.
✦ Result: A fully searchable collection, increasing online visibility and facilitating research in the history of photography.
INED - SocFace
Large-Scale Processing of Civil Status Archives
Scaling Up with Arkindex
✦ Challenge: Indexing a century of census lists across France, representing 344 million individual records.
✦ Solution: Implementation of large-scale processing via Arkindex to automate tabular data analysis and enable scientific use.
✦ Result: A drastic reduction in manual indexing time and immediate availability for researchers and genealogists.
The Impact of TEKLIA’s Technology
Our AI solutions analyze documents and media with precision and efficiency, reducing manual work and enabling staff to focus on data interpretation and exploitation.
20 million
images processed
33.7 billion
characters transcribed
6x faster
than manual entry
90% savings
compared to manual processing
Start Your Heritage AI Project
Historical and cultural documents require processing aligned with your professional needs.
TEKLIA places process traceability, model performance, and data security at the heart of its AI developments.
Unlock the full potential of your digitized collections!
Frequently Asked Questions
Large-scale processing of heritage documents using artificial intelligence takes place after a preliminary digitization phase. TEKLIA supports institutions in implementing reliable industrial solutions for exploiting large heritage corpora, while ensuring rigorous quality control throughout production.
Absolutely. We use fine-tuning: we train our models on your own data to ensure transcription that faithfully reflects the graphical particularities of your collections.
Yes. Our Arkindex platform provides a comprehensive REST API and supports the IIIF standard, enabling full interoperability with your collection management tools and web portals.

