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

fYear

1993

fDate

20-22 Oct 1993

Firstpage

103

Lastpage

106

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.1993.395772

Filename

395772