Audit et conseil en stratégieWomen and men committed to your heritage
and we’re committed to bringing them all to light.
What drives us
Revealing the past to build the future
Our mission is to preserve history in all its forms
By safeguarding all kinds of heritage, we can secure the integrity and sustainability of knowledge.
Our ambition is to bring our heritage expertise to any establishment, wherever it may be in the world.
To preserve and promote all kinds of history
To support you in preserving heritage and history in all its forms, across every domain.
100 employees
Passionate teams working on exciting projects
Our teams hold a wealth of extensive and complementary expertise.
Our talents include archivists, historians, digitisation experts, project leaders, business managers, and enhancement experts with a passion for heritage. Our expertise spans various roles within document digitisation, establishing us as a trusted document digitisation company.
Gaëlle Duplan
Assistant director
Céline Merlet
International Sales Engineer
Pauline Chan Kam Lung
Historical Archivist
Jennifer Pereira
Photographer
Lisa Le Goff
Project manager
Nadia Bezza
Control and Processing Operator
Aurélie Michelet Pommier
Supervisor and Trainer
Emilie Jobard
Project manager
Emilie Martinet
Digitization Project Manager
Corinne Touller
Head of Production
Laurent Bidet
International Sales Engineer
Patrice Parise
Director of Operations
Cédric Bousquet
Graphic Designer
Vanessa Le Rolle
Sales Engineer
Martin Charré
Junior project manager
Marie Burnel
Heritage Centre Manager
Pauline Couture
Project manager
Laurent Onainty
Managing Director
Damien Tekla
Sales Engineer
Laurent Autret
Production Maintenance Manager
Simon Carty
Digitization expert
Emmanuel Fremau
Marketing and business development manager
Sigrid Haro
Key Account Manager
Juliette Félix
Sales Engineer Ile de France
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Revealing histories since 1999
2023
Arkhênum launches in Portugal
In partnership with Graf IT, Arkhênum undertakes a major heritage digitisation project for the National Archives of Portugal. Over the next three years, Arkhênum will digitise more than five million pages in five cities in the northeastern part of the country.
2022
New success story in Germany
The German National Library selects Arkhênum to conduct a systematic digitisation of its extensive collections. Over two years, Arkhênum’s teams digitise printed documents in various formats, states of conservation, and languages on-site.
2021
Arkhênum, looking to the future
Arkhênum enters a new phase, embracing a new identity, and expanding by securing major projects. This includes working on the Museum of Brittany’s photographic collections, digitisation for the National Library of France, and a project with a heritage body in Leipzig, Germany.
2018
UNOG project
The United Nations selects Arkhênum to digitise the archives of the League of Nations on site in Geneva, Switzerland. During the four-year project, Arkhênum’s digitisation operators handle a total of 15 million pages. A digital library provides access to these digitised archives.
2018
New headquarters
With close to 60 employees, Arkhênum moves to new premises more suited to its skills diversification. The new Bordeaux headquarters allow the company to continue growing.
2017
Creation of the Heritage Division
The Heritage Division is a historical engineering department of archivists and historians specialised in processing heritage documents. Arkhênum is France’s first organisation to handle the whole heritage document management chain: archive processing, digitisation and promotion.
2016
Arkhênum joins the MOBILITAS Group
Arkhênum joins the MOBILITAS Group, a leader in document management in over 200 countries – an international footprint from which we greatly benefit.
2014
Continued growth
Arkhênum hits the 50-employee mark and expands its production (digitisation operators), project management, IT, network and business management teams.
2013
Bespoke support
Arkhênum puts together a bespoke support project for the Brittany region. We manage the on-site digitisation of Le Télégramme newspaper, which is launched online on the Dépêche de Brest website.
2011
New offers to share collections online
Arkhênum enriches its offering by launching a digital library service enabling heritage collections to be shared and accessed on the internet.
2010
Safeguarding the Timbuktu Manuscripts
Through a skills-based sponsorship initiative, Arkhênum participates in the project to safeguard the Timbuktu Manuscripts (setting up a digitisation unit and training local teams).
2009
Opening of our Parisian site
Arkhênum continues to develop by opening its digitisation site in Paris. Our first project involves digitising nomination files for the National Order of the Legion of Honour.
2008
We hit the 10 million images mark
In 2008, we hit 10 million images produced manually on our heritage scanners.
2004
Digitisation of Mont-Saint-Michel manuscripts
Arkhênum works on-site at the Scriptorial d’Avranches to digitise the Mont-Saint-Michel manuscripts.
2003
3D flipbook offering
Launch of our first R&D project: a flip-through virtual manuscript. This marks the beginning of our publicisation offering. The project receives the 2006 Sime Sitem Innovation Award and is developed as a web version.
2001
First on-site workshop
Our first on-site digitisation workshop opens at the Sorbonne University (Paris) to meet researchers’ and students’ needs “on demand”.
1999
Foundation of Arkhênum in Bordeaux
Launch of our heritage digitisation activities in Bordeaux (France) thanks to I2S scanner technology.
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