Document Analysis Systems VII: 7th International Workshop, Das 2006, Nelson, New Zealand, February 13-15, 2006, Proceedings (Paperback, 2006)

Session 1: Digital Libraries.- Retrieval from Document Image Collections.- A Semi-automatic Adaptive OCR for Digital Libraries.- Session 2: Image Processing.- Contribution to the Discrimination of the Medieval Manuscript Texts: Application in the Palaeography.- Restoring Ink Bleed-Through Degraded Document Images Using a Recursive Unsupervised Classification Technique.- Networked Document Imaging with Normalization and Optimization.- Gray-Scale Thinning Algorithm Using Local Min/Max Operations.- Session 3: Handwriting 1.- Automated Scoring of Handwritten Essays Based on Latent Semantic Analysis.- Aligning Transcripts to Automatically Segmented Handwritten Manuscripts.- Virtual Example Synthesis Based on PCA for Off-Line Handwritten Character Recognition.- Extraction of Handwritten Text from Carbon Copy Medical Form Images.- Session 4: Document Structure and Format.- Document Logical Structure Analysis Based on Perceptive Cycles.- A System for Converting PDF Documents into Structured XML Format.- XCDF: A Canonical and Structured Document Format.- Structural Analysis of Mathematical Formulae with Verification Based on Formula Description Grammar.- Session 5: Tables.- Notes on Contemporary Table Recognition.- Handwritten Artefact Identification Method for Table Interpretation with Little Use of Previous Knowledge.- Session 6: Handwriting 2.- Writer Identification for Smart Meeting Room Systems.- Extraction and Analysis of Document Examiner Features from Vector Skeletons of Grapheme 'th'.- Segmentation of On-Line Handwritten Japanese Text Using SVM for Improving Text Recognition.- Application of Bi-gram Driven Chinese Handwritten Character Segmentation for an Address Reading System.- Session 7: Language and Script Identification.- Language Identification in Degraded and Distorted Document Images.- Bangla/English Script Identification Based on Analysis of Connected Component Profiles.- Script Identification from Indian Documents.- Finding the Best-Fit Bounding-Boxes.- Session 9: Systems and Performance Evaluation.- Towards Versatile Document Analysis Systems.- Exploratory Analysis System for Semi-structured Engineering Logs.- Ground Truth for Layout Analysis Performance Evaluation.- On Benchmarking of Invoice Analysis Systems.- Semi-automatic Ground Truth Generation for Chart Image Recognition.- Session 10: Retrieval and Segmentation.- Efficient Word Retrieval by Means of SOM Clustering and PCA.- The Effects of OCR Error on the Extraction of Private Information.- Combining Multiple Classifiers for Faster Optical Character Recognition.- Performance Comparison of Six Algorithms for Page Segmentation.- Posters.- HVS Inspired System for Script Identification in Indian Multi-script Documents.- A Shared Fragments Analysis System for Large Collections of Web Pages.- Offline Handwritten Arabic Character Segmentation with Probabilistic Model.- Automatic Keyword Extraction from Historical Document Images.- Digitizing a Million Books: Challenges for Document Analysis.- Toward File Consolidation by Document Categorization.- Finding Hidden Semantics of Text Tables.- Reconstruction of Orthogonal Polygonal Lines.- A Multiclass Classification Framework for Document Categorization.- The Restoration of Camera Documents Through Image Segmentation.- Cut Digits Classification with k-NN Multi-specialist.- The Impact of OCR Accuracy and Feature Transformation on Automatic Text Classification.- A Method for Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents.- Groove Extraction of Phonographic Records.- Use of Affine Invariants in Locally Likely Arrangement Hashing for Camera-Based Document Image Retrieval.- Robust Chinese Character Recognition by Selection of Binary-Based and Grayscale-Based Classifier.- Segmentation-Driven Recognition Applied to Numerical Field Extraction from Handwritten Incoming Mail Documents.- Performance Evaluation of Text Detection and Tracking in Video.- Document Analysis System for Automating Workflows.- Automatic Assembling of Cadastral