Document Image Analysis (Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence)

Interest in the automatic processing and analysis of document images has been rapidly increasing during the past few years. This book consists of 14 revised and expanded contributions that were originally presented at the IAPR workshop on Structural and Syntatic Pattern Recognition, held in Bern, Switzerland, in 1992. It addresses the different subfields of document image analysis, including preprocessing and segmentation, form processing, handwriting recognition, line drawing and map processing, and contextual processing.