Document analysis systems : theory and practice : third IAPR workshop, DAS '98, Nagano, Japan, November 4-6, 1998 : selected papers / Seong-Whan Lee, Yasuaki Nakano (eds.).

IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems.

With bibliographical references.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereeed post-workshop proceedings of the Third IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS'98, held in Nagano, Japan in November 1998. The 29 revised full papers included in the book have gone through two rounds of reviewing and were selected from a total of 53 papers accepted for presentation at the workshop. The papers address all current aspects of document analysis systems; they are organized in topical sections on document image compression and retrieval, document structure analysis, handwriting recognition, document image analysis, and document analysis systems.

Document Image Compression and Retrieval -- Measuring the Robustness of Character Shape Coding -- Group 4 Compressed Document Matching -- Restoration of Decorative Headline Images for Document Retrieval -- Document Image Analysis Using a New Compression Algorithm -- Document Structure Analysis -- A General Approach to Quality Evaluation of Document Segmentation Results -- Form Analysis by Neural Classification of Cells -- A Formal Approach to Textons and Its Application to Font Style Detection -- A Statistical Method for an Automatic Detection of Form Types -- Structure Analysis of Low Resolution Fax Cover Pages -- Handwriting Recognition -- Lexical Search Approach for Character-String Recognition -- A Segmentation Method for Touching Handwritten Japanese Characters -- Cursive Handwritten Word Recognition by Integrating Multiple Classifiers -- Segmentation of Touching Characters in Formulas -- The AddressScript™ Recognition System for Handwritten Envelopes -- Document Image Analysis -- Sorting and Recognizing Cheques and Financial Documents -- A System for the Automated Reading of Check Amounts -- Some Key Ideas -- A Fast Japanese Word Extraction with Classification to Similarly-Shaped Character Categories and Morphological Analysis -- A Layout-Free Method for Extracting Elements from Document Images -- Text-Line Extraction as Selection of Paths in the Neighbor Graph -- Table Structure Extraction from Form Documents Based on Gradient-Wavelet Scheme -- The T-Recs Table Recognition and Analysis System -- Document Analysis Systems -- Document Analysis Systems Development and Representation through the Object-Process Methodology -- Precise Table Recognition by Making Use of Reference Tables -- Design of an Integrated Environment for the Automated Analysis of Architectural Drawings? -- An Approach for Processing Mathematical Expressions in Printed Document -- A Map Mosaicking Method Using Opportunistic Search Approach with a Blackboard Structure -- Document Layout and Reading Sequence Analysis by Extended Split Detection Method -- Chinese Handwritten Character Segmentation in Form Documents -- Text Extraction, Enhancement and OCR in Digital Video.