Structured Document Image Analysis

Document image analysis is the automatic computer

interpretation of images of printed and handwritten

documents, including text, drawings, maps, music scores,

etc. Research in this field supports a rapidly growing

international industry. This is the first book to offer a

broad selection of state-of-the-art research papers,

including authoritative critical surveys of the literature,

and parallel studies of the architectureof complete

high-performance printed-document reading systems. A unique

feature is the extended section on music notation, an ideal

vehicle for international sharing of basic research. Also,

the collection includes important new work on line drawings,

handwriting, character and symbol recognition, and basic

methodological issues. The IAPR 1990 Workshop on Syntactic

and Structural Pattern Recognition is summarized,including

the reports of its expert working groups, whose debates

provide a fascinating perspective on the field.

The book is an excellent text for a first-year graduate

seminar in document image analysis,and is likely to remain

a standard reference in the field for years.