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.