Document image analysis is the automatic computerinterpretation of images of printed and handwrittendocuments, including text, drawings, maps, music scores, etc. Research in this field supports a rapidly growinginternational industry. This is the first book to offer abroad selection of state-of-the-art research papers, including authoritative critical surveys of the literature, and parallel studies of the architectureof completehigh-performance printed-document reading systems. A uniquefeature is the extended section on music notation, an idealvehicle for international sharing of basic research. Also, the collection includes important new work on line drawings, handwriting, character and symbol recognition, and basicmethodological issues. The IAPR 1990 Workshop on Syntacticand Structural Pattern Recognition is summarized, includingthe reports of its expert working groups, whose debatesprovide a fascinating perspective on the field. The book is an excellent text for a first-year graduateseminar in document image analysis, and is likely to remaina standard reference in the field for years.
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