Feature Center: Getting the Picture from Documents and Drawings
Robert H. Thibadeau, R. Rosas Romero, David S. Touretzky · 1995
The problem of technical document conversion embodies the broadest range of image processing problems, since technical documents, by their nature, span a highly diverse set of printed forms of communication. Our experience suggests that a proper solution path is to shift focus away from particular algorithms and toward a systemic architecture that permits readily addressing specific conversion problems with manual guidance. The result is a system in which the user can establish the goals he has for conversion, based on his own requirements and the attributes of the conversion tools he has at hand. Keywords: document image conversion, non text document conversion, system architecture Feature Center: Getting the Picture from Documents and Drawings Robert Thibadeau, Rick Romero, and David Touretzky Imaging Systems Laboratory School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1 INTRODUCTION This paper describes an automated document conversion sy...