Collaborations

Laboratories
TUNISIA
- RIADI (ENSI Tunis)
- LSTS (ENIT Tunis)
- LARIS (Univ. Sfax)
- REGIM (ENIS Sfax)
- ENIM (Monastir)		 The team maintains scientific collaboration relations with Tunisian research teams.  This collaboration enters in the framework of a convention signed between the University of Tunis and the INRIA.  It takes various forms:  Co-framings of thesards in the various Tunisian teams working in the field of  writing and document recognition, invitation in various conferences, summer schools, seminars, and jury, courses in doctoral formation and animation of team meetings, Co-organization of international conferences.  Two theses were supported, one on the segmentatiuon of mathematical documents (A. Kacem) and one other, on the recognition of printed Arabic writing (N. Ben Amara).
INDIA
- ISI (Calcutta)  READ group of LORIA has an international collaboration starting from October, 2002 [under IFCPAR (Indo-French Center for the Promotion of Advanced Research)] with the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta towards a project on Indian postal automation. India is multilingual and multi-script (there are 18 official languages and 12 different scripts) country where a postal document may be written by using one or more of these languages. Under this project, we plan to develop a combined system to sort postal letters after recognizing pincode and cityname written on the respective postal documents. At first we plan to use English and Bangla languages for the purpose. This collabotation initiates when LORIA received Dr. U. Pal of Indian Ststistical Institute to work at READ group of LORIA for a year as a Postdoctoral fellow. Prof. A. Belaid was also invited by Indian Statistical Institute for the work under this collaborative project.
SWITZERLAND
- GIRAF (IUF Suiss) A. Belaïd was invited as Professor in 1996 at the University of Fribourg (Swiss) in the GIRAF team  of Professor Rolf Ingold.
GERMANY
- ICT (Braunschweig Germany) The collaboration with Tunisia is extended to the ICT for joint projects on Arabic recognition.
FRANCE
  • LIIA (ENSAIS Strasbourg)

  • -LIRE (IHS Lyon)
  • A collaboration is started around a project named  ILIADE on  electronic book and electronic reading. This collaboration in now extended to the RNTL project PAPLOO
  • The collaboration concerns the projects ALN and ELLEN.
Companies
- ITESOFT The team collaborates on several subjects with the ITESOFT company : analyzis of mail order  forms, invoice and a legal amount recognition.
- JOUVE The team developed a system of bibliographic record recognition for the retroconversion of library catalogues.
- (XRCE) XEROX We contributed to the development of the document server project, CALLIOPE, by developing a system for table of contents recognition.
- Océ A DEA stage was carried out in collaboration with Océ-PLT for complex document  indexing. 
- Berger-Levrault We have studied a platform for document coding by OCR integration and combination.