Title :
Document architecture language (DAL) approach to document processing
Author :
Yu, Chiu L. ; Tang, Yuan Y. ; Suen, Ching Y.
Author_Institution :
Center for Pattern Recognition & Machine Intelligence, Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
An intelligent document processing system which can process unconstrained format-free documents is presented. A new document format definition language called Document Architecture Language (DAL) which can handle both rectangular and irregular blocks is presented. Combined with pattern recognition techniques, DAL can be widely used in document analysis and understanding with very wide scopes including general newspaper articles, editorials, financial forms, advertisements, front page of magazine, etc. Bank cheques are employed as an example
Keywords :
document handling; page description languages; DAL; Document Architecture Language; advertisements; bank cheques; document analysis; document format definition language; document understanding; editorials; financial forms; intelligent document processing system; irregular blocks; magazine covers; newspaper articles; pattern recognition techniques; rectangular blocks; unconstrained format-free documents; Character recognition; Control systems; Image databases; Image segmentation; Machine intelligence; Pattern analysis; Pattern recognition; Text analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 1993., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tsukuba Science City
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4960-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.1993.395772
