Developing Document Handling Technologies

by Bernard Hidoine

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INRIA and Rank Xerox SA announced a partnership to further advance electronic document processing technology. One of the objectives is to apply Rank Xerox technologies and INRIA research results to develop innovative applications such as digital library services.

Over the next three years, the Rank Xerox Research Centre and INRIA will address a number of key areas including:

• document creation using authoring tools, translation tools, document assembling tools; automatic creation of terminology dictionaries
• document storage and access for easy information retrieval; document storage should be efficient using compression tools, indexing tools, access to the information in the document using intelligent search and retrieval tools (multi-lingual search allows users to search with key-words in their native language, even if the documents to be searched are written in several languages)
• Document visualization using high resolution document browsers and high resolution visualizers
• content manipulation: automatic summarization and translation tools
• copyright management, security and authentication tools for the distri-bution of documents on the network
• process support technology for the coordination of distributed event.

"The aim of this co-operation is to bring users the most up-to-date document handling technologies," said Hervé Gallaire, Director of the Rank Xerox Research Centre in Grenoble. "We anticipate a fruitful three years ahead of us resulting in the development of exciting and innovative technologies and applications," added H. Gallaire. "The partnership demonstrates our commit-ment to establish close links with the industry, thus favouring technology transfer and exchanging expertise. INRIA and RXRC are planning other joint projects and met in September to discuss and establish a time line for these," said Bernard Larrouturou, President of INRIA.

Please contact:
Carole Silvy - INRIA
Tel: +33 76 61 53 11
E-mail: Carole.Silvy@inria.fr