Organization of the i2S group

i2S is organized around three major divisions:

Digitization of written cultural heritage

• i2S DigiBook designs, manufactures and markets a complete range of scanners for the digitization of ancient books, bound documents and archives, associated with powerful software suites for automatic image restoration. The i2S Digbook division, created in 2000, has gradually made itself the world leader in digital scanners for bound documents.

Monitoring of industrial production

• i2S LineScan designs, manufactures and installs turnkey Surface Inspection systems. i2S’s LineScan systems, based on FLAWSCAN proprietary technology, continuously monitor the manufacturing of continuous web or sheet materials such as paper, non-woven products, plastic films and glass in real time, 24 hours a day. FLAWSCAN  technology allows defects on the order of tens of millimeters to be detected on surfaces several meters wide that can be advancing at more than 1000 meters per minute.

Distribution and Development of application solutions with high added value

• i2S Vision, is the French specialist in digital Vision and industrial cameras. An institutional partner of major companies such as Sony, Dalsa, and Matrox, whose products it distributes and integrates into functional subassemblies, i2S Vision benefits from its position of leader on the French market, which makes it a strategic partner for international equipment manufacturers or major technological groups who recognize it for its high expertise in image acquisition and processing technologies and for the quality of its service.

A Research & Development Section and a policy of partnership

• internal: Its own innovation section (>10% of revenue in R&D)
• external: "Route des lasers" and "AESE" business clusters

(*) Aéronautique Espace et Systèmes Embarqués (Aeronautics, Space and Onboard Systems)

• Partners : over the years, i2S has built an international network of well-known industrial partners (Equipment manufacturers, Integrators and Service Providers) and research laboratories such as:
  - LABRI, INSA in Lyon, L3i in la Rochelle, Institut de la Cognitique in Bordeaux, etc.
  - It sponsors the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Optique in Paris
  - It sponsors the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Optique in Paris
  - It participates actively in professional associations such as ADEISO, OPTICS VALLEY and the Comité Richelieu
  - Member of the “Laser Route" business cluster, leader on the "TerraBook" project and a member of the ALPHA association, which is responsible for its governance.
  - Member of European projects of the 5th Research Framework Program, VISREC (Vision Assisted Machine for Recycling Applications) and FINDER (Fast Intelligence Defect Recognition System)
  - Member of the Franco-German project QUAERO which aims to organize an industrial network focused on the development of new systems for managing multimedia content for consumer or professional applications

To date, i2S has submitted 18 patent applications and possesses 5 active patents.

An international presence under development:

• Two subsidiaries: USA (Orange, Connecticut) and China (Shanghai)
• Almost 50 % of revenue comes directly from abroad