# OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION \(OCR\) SERVICES

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES](/buyers/the-national-archives/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: TRANS MEDIA TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
- Award value: £53,000
- Tender value: £200,000
- Award date: 4 January 2018
- Published: 16 January 2018
- Contract start: 8 January 2018
- Contract end: 2 December 2018
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: c421c179-3649-45a2-b369-ae659bc704c7-191842
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-4d38914a-9a72-47ac-b859-3114ee16397d

## Description

This document is an Invitation to Tender \(ITT\) for the supply of Optical Character Recognition \(OCR\) services to TNA\. Optical Character Recognition \(OCR\) software will be applied to all documents where possible to enable deep text searching \(i\.e\. all typed material\)\. OCR output will be provided in the language of the source document\. We expect that there will be a proportion of English language handwritten records within the series that has been chosen for inclusion\. In addition, certain records or images within records may contain partial or complete Arabic script\. This OCR tender involves the processing of up to an estimated 500,000 images\. These images are spread across 4,870 pieces\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c421c179-3649-45a2-b369-ae659bc704c7-191842)