Provision of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processing and conversion of scanned images and PDF documents to coded data and data extraction
Buyer: European Patent Organisation
- Published
- 11 September 2024
- Submission deadline
- 9 January 2025, 12:00
- Place of performance
- Munich, DE212
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Documents
- 1
- Notice number
- 00544518-2024
- Reference
- 186902d8-4c65-4ad2-aa66-86f7727fcfd1
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 72312200Servicios de reconocimiento óptico de caracteres
Description
The European Patent Office (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, 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 Lots. 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.
Lots (3)
| Lot | Description | CPV code | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lot 1 - Early OCR - Optical Character Recognition concerning patent documents requiring digitisation of text | 72312200 Servicios de reconocimiento óptico de caracteres | — |
| 2 | Lot 2 - Citation Extraction | 72312200 Servicios de reconocimiento óptico de caracteres | — |
| 3 | Lot 3 - Forms OCR | 72312200 Servicios de reconocimiento óptico de caracteres | — |
Award criteria
- Quality — Technical conditions
- Quality — Technical conditions
- Price — Price
- Quality — Technical Conditions
Official publications
- TED · 00544518-2024 · 11 September 2024
- OJS · 177/2024 · 11 September 2024
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- The submission deadline is 9 January 2025, 12:00. Check the official source, as dates can be modified.
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- The contracting authority is European Patent Organisation (European Union).
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