The Socface Project: Large-Scale Collection, Processing, and Analysis of a Century of French Censuses

arXiv:2404.18706v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents a complete processing workflow for extracting information from French census lists from 1836 to 1936. These lists contain information about individuals living in France and their households. We aim at extracting all the information contained in these tables using automatic handwritten table recognition. At the end of the Socface project, in which our work is taking place, the extracted information will be redistributed to the departmental archives, and the nominative lists will …

abstract aim analysis and analysis arxiv census collection cs.cv france french information lists paper processing project scale tables the information type workflow