Document Analysis Systems VI: 6th International Workshop, Das 2004, Florence, Italy, September 8-10, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004)

Digital Libraries.- Document Analysis Systems for Digital Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities.- The Trinity College Dublin 1872 Online Catalogue.- DL Architecture for Indic Scripts.- A Semantic-Based System for Querying Personal Digital Libraries.- Toward Personalized Digital Library for Providing "Information JIT".- Historical Documents.- Tilting at Windmills: Adventures in Attempting to Reconstruct Don Quixote.- A Segmentation-Free Recognition Technique to Assist Old Greek Handwritten Manuscript OCR.- Automatic Metadata Retrieval from Ancient Manuscripts.- A Complete Approach to the Conversion of Typewritten Historical Documents for Digital Archives.- An Adaptive Binarization Technique for Low Quality Historical Documents.- Segmentation of Handwritten Characters for Digitalizing Korean Historical Documents.- Self-organizing Maps and Ancient Documents.- Enriching Historical Manuscripts: The Bovary Project.- Layout Analysis.- Word Grouping in Document Images Based on Voronoi Tessellation.- Multi-component Document Image Coding Using Regions-of-Interest.- Physical Layout Analysis of Complex Structured Arabic Documents Using Artificial Neural Nets.- An Integrated Approach for Automatic Semantic Structure Extraction in Document Images.- Multi-view hac for Semi-supervised Document Image Classification.- Configurable Text Stamp Identification Tool with Application of Fuzzy Logic.- Layout and Content Extraction for PDF Documents.- Automatic Extraction of Filled-In Items from Bank-Check Images.- Color Documents.- Bleed-Through Removal from Degraded Documents Using a Color Decorrelation Method.- Colour Map Classification for Archive Documents.- Serialized k-Means for Adaptative Color Image Segmentation.- Adaptive Region Growing Color Segmentation for Text Using Irregular Pyramid.- Preprocessing and Segmentation of Bad Quality Machine Typed Documents.- Handwritten Documents.- Ensembles of Classifiers for Handwritten Word Recognition Specialized on Individual Handwriting Style.- Information Retrieval System for Handwritten Documents.- Word-Wise Script Identification from Indian Documents.- Recognizing Freeform Digital Ink Annotations.- Post-processing of Handwritten Pitman's Shorthand Using Unigram and Heuristic Approaches.- Multiscale Handwriting Characterization for Writers' Classification.- Graphics Recognition.- A Hybrid Approach to Detect Graphical Symbols in Documents.- Performance Evaluation of Symbol Recognition.- The Search for Genericity in Graphics Recognition Applications: Design Issues of the Qgar Software System.- Attributed Graph Matching Based Engineering Drawings Retrieval.- A Platform to Extract Knowledge from Graphic Documents. Application to an Architectural Sketch Understanding Scenario.- Internet Documents.- A Graph-Based Framework for Web Document Mining.- XML Documents Within a Legal Domain: Standards and Tools for the Italian Legislative Environment.- Rule-Based Structural Analysis of Web Pages.- Extracting Table Information from the Web.- A Neural Network Classifier for Junk E-Mail.- Document Analysis Systems.- Results of a Study on Invoice-Reading Systems in Germany.- A Document Analysis System Based on Text Line Matching of Multiple OCR Outputs.- DocMining: A Document Analysis System Builder.- Automatic Fax Routing.- Applications.- Contextual Swarm-Based Multi-layered Lattices: A New Architecture for Contextual Pattern Recognition.- Natural Language Processing of Patents and Technical Documentation.- Document Image Retrieval in a Question Answering System for Document Images.- A Robust Braille Recognition System.- Document Image Watermarking Based on Weight-Invariant Partition Using Support Vector Machine.- Video Degradation Model and Its Application to Character Recognition in e-Learning Videos.- Unity Is Strength: Coupling Media for Thematic Segmentation.