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AI-Based Information Extraction from Collection Entry Records

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

France ✧ 2026

Corpus


1290 images 

9 registrers 

Artificial Intelligence Technologies Used


  • OCR for Historical Documents
  • Page layout analysis
  • Named entities extraction
  • Data Indexing and Structuring

Project Objectives


Extracting information from the Louvre's collection entry records 


Extracted data : 

Object description, dimensions, provenance information, material, price, inventory number, etc.

Processing workflow


- Corpus Analysis

- Drafting prompts (LLM) and testing phases using samples: one prompt for each structure (4 in total)

- Processing on all pages: data retrieved in JSON format

- Export to Excel format with the extracted data and metadata from the records

- Manual verification the consistency of the data found in each column