The Jouve Group, working with the Quaero project

Today, companies and organisations must manage and enhance an increasing volume of information in very diverse formats: from paper to electronic text documents and in which audio or video multimedia information may be incorporated.

In order to satisfy these requirements, Jouve will offer*, to digitise and enhance all of this information. This industrial cooperation is part of the European project, Quaero.
* in association with French and German research labs and innovative technological SMEs

The Quaero project requires Jouve to develop a new industrial platform for scanning, converting, and annotating documents., the goal for Jouve, in the scope of its participation in this project, is to enable libraries, editors, patent offices and industrials to enhance their content and give a new dimension to scientific and technical information.

The objective for Jouve and its partners is to break down the barriers to accessing information, to enhance and develop an integrated solution, taking into account digitisation difficulties, and also linguistic and semantic content analysis.

Presentation of Jouve’s expertise

• Development of new non-destructive automatic digitisation solutions
• Image quality improvement for multimedia diffusions,
• Multilingual text recognition in multimedia documents,
• Automatic structuring of complex documents,
• Multilingual standardisation and sorting,
• Translation,
• Automatic content annotation.

According to M. Benoit Drigny, Director of Digitalisation Activities for the Jouve Group “With the Quaero program, a new, dynamic distribution of multimedia content is being born. Jouve is bringing all its experience to this ambitious project in order to succeed in combining media and improving the necessary technologies for expanding digital libraries in the cultural, scientific and technical domains, as well as patents.”

About Jouve

Specialised in information processing, the Jouve Group can provide solutions to companies, institutions and editors who produce and digitise information. In order to enhance their content, Jouve offers a compete solution to acquire, manage and digitise this information on paper, electronically, on PDA or on CD-ROM.

The Jouve Group: 1,400 employees,
Annual turnover 2007: 110 million Euros

About Quaero

Quaero is a collaborative research and development programme centred on the use of electronic multimedia content in both professional and public environments: automatic information extraction, analysis, sorting and application. The research work objective is the automatic understanding and management of limitless multilingual multimedia information, for text, speech, music, images and videos.

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