First we describe our experiences with document processing support. Then we consider the similarities between document processing and work-ow management and the relation of both to ooce information systems. In many cases ooce tasks create, manipulate and disseminate documents. While the evolution of modern ooce technology enables people to process documents more eeciently, the same technology c...

Text/graphics separation aims at segmenting the document into two layers: a layer assumed to contain text and a layer containing graphical objects. In this paper, we present a consolidation of a method proposed by Fletcher and Kasturi, with a number of improvements to make it more suitable for graphics-rich documents. We discuss the right choice of thresholds for this method, and their stabilit...

This paper deals with the application of a multi-channel ltering-based texture segmentation method to a variety of document image processing problems: text-graphics separation, address-block location, and bar code localization. Both supervised and unsuper-vised methods have been used to identify regions of text or bar code in the input gray level document images. The performance of our segmenta...

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...

We present a document processing system that accepts scanned images of paper documents as input and outputs hyperlinked electronic documents. The system segments document images, separating text from graphics, recognizes text, and creates hypertext links between document components (text, images, graphics). By (1) limiting input to popular Times-Roman and Helvetica fonts found in first-generati...