Hennessy - LVMH
Letters of Richard Hennessy
France ✧ 2023-2026
Corpus
Handwritten letters from Richard Hennessy
Copy registers of letters
Expedition logs
Copy registers of letters
Expedition logs
About 20 000 images
Artificial intelligence technologies used
Objectives
Studying and sharing the correspondence of the brand's founder, Richard Hennessy (1776-1799).
- Automatic transcription and information extraction (recipient, date, place of writing).
- Table analysis.
Chaîne de traitement
- Training an HTR model
- Page segmentation based on model prediction analysis
- Matching with city repositories
- Named entity recognition: extracting the people mentioned (recipients, others) along with their title/function
- Creating a terms -> letters index and a letters -> terms index
- Export: PDF files with text layer, Word files, CSV files
Hennessy: The historic Richonne site and the banks of the Charente River in Cognac.© Photo credit: JULIA HASSE for Hennessy