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# + Meet the READ project partners - Hervé Déjean

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 READ-COOP

February 27, 2017

*****What’s your name?*****

Hervé Déjean.

*****Where do you work?*****

[Xerox Research Centre Europe](http://www.xrce.xerox.com/).

*****Tell us a bit about your background…*****

I hold a PhD in Natural Language Processing, and for 10 years I’ve been working on Document Layout Analysis and Information Extraction.

*****What is your role in the READ project?*****

We are in charge of the Document Understanding part of the project.  We work on techniques to extract human understandable information from historical documents and codify it into a machine-readable form.  If you’re interested to find out more, I recently wrote a [blog](https://read.transkribus.eu/2017/02/02/finding-patterns-in-eighteenth-century-weddings/) post about some of our research.

*****What is top of your to-do list at the moment?*****

I am preparing a demo of Information Extraction for the READ project’s upcoming review meeting with the European Commission.

*****What do you like best about working on READ?*****

Learning how to read old manuscripts!

*****If you could do another job for just one day, what would it be?*****

Street sweeper (that way I could meet [Beppo](http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/747827-you-see-momo-he-beppo-roadsweeper-told-her-one-day)!)

*****What can you see out of the window of your office? *****

On a sunny day…

[![](https://blog.transkribus.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/20170216_142715-768x1024-1.jpg?width=720&height=960&name=20170216_142715-768x1024-1.jpg) ![](https://blog.transkribus.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/20170216_142715-768x1024-1.jpg?width=720&height=960&name=20170216_142715-768x1024-1.jpg) ](https://blog.transkribus.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/20170216_142715-1.jpg?hsLang=en)

And in the snow…

[![](https://blog.transkribus.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/20170206_125326-1024x768-1.jpg?width=720&height=540&name=20170206_125326-1024x768-1.jpg) ![](https://blog.transkribus.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/20170206_125326-1024x768-1.jpg?width=720&height=540&name=20170206_125326-1024x768-1.jpg) ](https://blog.transkribus.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/20170206_125326-1.jpg?hsLang=en)

*****Thanks Hervé! *****

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