There is a plethora of established and proposed document representation formats but none that can adequately support individual stages within an entire sequence of document image analysis methods (from document image enhancement to layout analysis to OCR) and their evaluation. This paper describes PAGE, a new XML-based page image representation framework that records information on image charac...

Analysis of document images for information extraction has become very prominent in recent past. Wide variety of information, which has been conventionally stored on paper is now being converted into electronic form for better storage and intelligent processing. This needs processing of documents using image analysis algorithms. Document image analysis differs from the conventional image proces...