Provision of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processing

Item Description:

The European Patent Organisation (EPO) is an intergovernmental organisation that was set up on 7 October 1977 on the basis of the European Patent Convention (EPC) signed in Munich in 1973. The Organisation currently has 38 member states, comprising all the member states of the European Union together with Albania, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey. Its mission to grant European patents in accordance with the EPC is carried out by the European Patent Office. The Organisation has its seat in Munich.

The EPO has a requirement for the Provision of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processing.

The EPO receives daily a large amount of confidential new patent applications, forms, free text letters as well as patent and non-patent literature containing plain text, tables, chemical and mathematical formulae as well as drawings relating to the patent grant process in various formats. These documents need to be OCR-converted into XML-structured data where formulae, drawings and many tables can be captured as images. The requested Services cover XML-conversion, localisation and extraction of citations and XML mark-up in line with the EPO’s capturing guidelines. On average the Services relate to 2 million pages per month spread over 3 Service Groups. Service descriptions and volumes are subject to change.

All data shall be kept and services shall be performed within the territory of one of the EPC Member States. The Services shall be performed at Contractor’s premises.

Contact Address

Postal address: Patentlaan 2
Postal code / Town: 2288 EE Rijswijk
Country: Netherlands
NUTS code: 00
Contact person: Central Procurement
Telephone: +31 70340-2040
E-mail: dhtenderclarifications@epo.org

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