City of Belfort
City Archives
France ✧ 2025
Project
Pilot project for the automatic transcription of all the city council registers (council meetings, lists of councillors, summonses, agendas, etc.) written between 1790 and 1946.
Corpus
18,500 pages of handwritten minutes
Processing workflow
- PDF to IIIF image conversion
- Collaborative annotation campaign
- Text line detection
- Handwritten text recognition
- Manual annotation of session start dates
- Manual segmentation of sessions
- Development of a web consultation portal
- Development of a search engine
- Integration into the city's website
