Document Analysis Systems: Theory and Practice: Third Iapr Workshop, Das'98, Nagano, Japan, November 4-6, 1998, Selected Papers (Paperback, 1999)

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(TM) 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.