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Our company

TEKLIA is a French company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence solutions applied to heritage documents, whether textual or visual. 

We support museums, libraries, archives, and research institutions in the digital transformation of their collections by designing tailor-made tools to automate the analysis, indexing, and enhancement of cultural corpora.

Specialized in handwritten and printed text recognition, layout analysis, named entity detection, and visual similarity search, TEKLIA develops efficient and interoperable processing pipelines capable of handling volumes ranging from a few thousand to several million documents.  

The company relies on recognized technical expertise, an open approach (based on open-source software), and a strong culture of collaboration with public and scientific organizations. To offer its clients cutting-edge technological solutions, TEKLIA dedicates a significant part of its activity to collaborative research projects in France, Europe, and Canada.

TEKLIA is involved in every stage of a project: strategic consulting, technical design, AI model development, process orchestration, integration into business systems, and team support.

TEKLIA is committed to designing ethical and responsible solutions that combine algorithmic transparency, strict compliance with GDPR, and a focus on digital sustainability in the implementation of its artificial intelligence technologies.


TEKLIA's evolution

For over 10 years, we have been working on the digital transformation of archives and heritage. 




2014 TEKLIA is founded by Christopher Kermorvant 


2016 Coordination of the INKS Research Lab

Coordination of the INKS Joint Research Lab between Hamelin Group and LITIS Lab at Rouen University to develop handwriting recognition technologies for smart management of digitized handwritten notes.


2017 
Subcontracted by Hyperlex to assist the Paris Chamber of Notaries in automatically classifying pages and redacting confidential property declarations within 2.5 million scanned real-estate census documents from 1970.


2018 
First research project funded by the French Research Agency (ANR): collaboration with IRHT-CNRS and Nantes University in the HORAE project on automatic text recognition for medieval Books of Hours.


2019 TEKLIA launches Arkindex

TEKLIA launches Arkindex, our open-souce platform for digital document processing.

First large-scale commercial project on historical documents in collaboration with the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC).


2021 Launch of SocFace and project Simara

SocFace is the world's largest project for the fully automated processing of census lists (France 1836-1936), with an estimated 20 million pages of security protocols implemented.

Simara is our first AI-assisted information extraction project from handwritten documents for the French National Archives.


2022 Bibilothèque Sainte-Geneviève project

Our first large-scale information extraction project involving printed documents (index cards and catalogs).


2023 Launch of FINLAM 

FINLAM is a research project on the use of AI for processing the collections of the BNF (French National Library), and in particular on the automatic structuring of historical press articles.


2024 Launch of HikarIA 

Launch of the HikarIA platform enabling AI-based exploitation of a collection of 19th-century Japanese photographs from the Guimet Museum.

TEKLIA has been awarded the long-term contract for the automated processing of archives belonging to the French Defense Historical Service.


2025 Memorial to the victims of slavery

TEKLIA is participating in compiling the list of names for the future national memorial to the victims of slavery through automatic recognition of documents from the Overseas Archives (ANOM).

Our offices

Our offices in Paris 

30 rue Raymond Losserand, 
75014 Paris, France

Our offices in Grenoble

La Turbine, 
5 esplanade Andry Farcy, 
38000 Grenoble, France