Arkhênum is a French company established in 1999 that specializes in digitizing cultural collections. It has 48 employees across 2 production sites in France and numerous workshop locations. In 2013, it digitized over 7 million documents and saw a 10% increase from the previous year. It provides services such as consulting, digitization, data enrichment, and digital libraries. It has over 500 clients, including archives, libraries, museums, banks, and luxury companies. The company can offer both specialized or comprehensive digitization services and has over 30 scanners to handle various document formats and sizes. It aims to preserve invaluable collections and make them accessible through digital libraries and other online platforms.

1. Company
Presentation

2. Arkhênum in a few words
• Established in 1999: 15 years of existence in 2014!
• 7 millions views digitized in 2013 (+10% increase vs last year)
• 2 production sites in France + numerous in situ workshop
• 48 employees specialized in cultural collection and digital
conversion
• Activities: counseling, digitizing, data enrichment and digital
libraries
• 500 clients have put their trust in us: Archives, Public libraries,
museums (…) but also private entities (banks, luxury
sector…)

3. A well established presence
France, USA, Guadeloupe, Guyana (Caribbean
seas), Switzerland, Belgium, Cameroun or Mali…

4. A highly skilled company
Our team will accompany you
throughout the various steps of your
project:
• 5 sales peoples who will analyze your collections and counsel you
• 4 project managers who will follow your project and keep you
informed
• 24 scanner operators specialized in the digitizing of cultural
collection
• 4 quality managers who will validate the delivered images and
production reports
• 3 engineers to ensure an optimized service delivery from digitizing to
securing the images processed for your project

5. A comprehensive expertise
We can offer our clients a global or specific service:
Digitizing services
- Study of their collections
- Counseling and training
- Document preparation
- Digitizing of all size of documents
Data enrichment
- Data enrichment: OCR, XML METS, Dublin Core
- Indexing and segmentation
Share data collections
- Digital libraries
- Interactive and tactile media supports
- 3D books

6. Your project roadmap
Digitizing Control and backup
Batch_001
File 2
File 3
File 1
Delivery of the
batch for client
validation
Control by client
Batch
validated
Quality not appropriate
Arkhênum back up
Final delivery of the images to the client
Project
report

7. Digitizing in a 120° mode
Preparation of your project:
- Analysis of your collection
- Recommendation regarding the preparation
- Defining the names of your files, images
- File formats defined (TIFF, PNG, JPEG)
- Resolution, compression level
- Black and white or RVB digitizing
- Necessary software
- Data bases
- HTML links, XML, etc…
Follow up of the project:
- Production control
- Integration into existing databases
- Online, off-line access, digital libraries
- Saving on appropriate medias
Study of your documents
Digitizing in a 90° mode
Digitizing in a 180° mode

8. Each document will be
manipulated accordingly

9. Your collections will define
the scanners chosen
And not the other way around…
Hasselblad camera:
• Postcards
• Seals
• …
Scanners A4  A00
• Maps
• Manuscripts
• Registers
• Old newspapers
• …
We have more than 30 scanners available

10. Various format
available
TIFF, JPEG, PDF
Preservation of invaluable documents
High resolution
CD Burning Portable
supports
Share collections on Internet…
Once digitized, use the images
the way you want
Share collections in your offices

11. It’s the most advanced solution for sharing of all data:
- Standard paper documents (manuscripts, engraving,
books, old newspapers…)
- Big size formats (maps, posters, building frameworks, …)
- Iconography (pictures, postcards, objects pictures, …)
- Industrial collections (patents, designs, …)
- But also videos, audios files
- Or even 3D object representations…
Our YooLib digital library

12. Words will be searched as well in the text of the images
Highlight of the word in the bibliographical details
Possibilities offered: a highly
efficient search tool

13. Detailled biographical notes (Dublin core) Image Wall in 3D
Categorization of your digital documents List of biographical notes with picture preview
An intuitive and exciting tool

14. An immersion into the
highest details of your collections

15. Leaf the documents as
if you had them in hand

16. Thank you for your time!
I remain at your disposal:
Emmanuel Fremau
e.fremau@arkhenum.fr
+ 33(0)6 27 16 08 73