Document Structure Analysis Based on Layout and Textual Features
Stefan Klink, Andreas R. Dengel, Thomas Kieninger · 2000
. Document image processing is a crucial process in the office automation and begins from the 'OCR' phase with difficulty of the document 'analysis' and 'understanding'. This paper presents a hybrid and comprehensive approach to document structure analysis. Hybrid in the sense, that it makes use of layout (geometrical) as well as textual features of a given document. These features are the base for potential conditions which in turn are used to express fuzzy matched rules of an underlying rule base. 1 Introduction In the office automation context processing, filing and retrieving of documents are the essential functionalities that help to increase the productivity of our work. Within this application domain, document analysis and understanding are the crucial activities for integrated office automation systems. However, despite major advances in computer technology, the degree of automation in acquiring and inquiring data from documents is still very limited. Most of the existi...