Signed on 26 October 2026 in Paris.
Partnership includes India's Culture Ministry, National Archives of India, National Library in Kolkata, and the National Library of France.
Key activities: digitising manuscripts, sharing a national digital repository, exchanging technology, conserving documents, and conducting joint research.
Experts will collaborate on tools such as Optical Character Recognition and Handwritten Text Recognition for Indian scripts.
Plans include workshops, capacity‑building programmes, publications, exhibitions, and scholar exchanges.
The agreement helps both countries work together to digitise old Indian manuscripts.
They will share technology for scanning, reading printed and handwritten text, and keeping the books safe.
Joint workshops and research projects will let scholars learn from each other.
This effort supports India's Gyan Bharatam Mission to protect the nation's written heritage.
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