An automated generation of an electronic library based on document image understanding

The article describes a framework for electronic library systems incorporating automated generation of electronic library schema from paper printed materials, offering a hypertext style browsing interface. On our framework, document image understanding techniques are applied to table-of-content images of academic journals to automatically acquire bibliographic database schema and hypertext schema. The system should only provide typical hypertext links as implicit links in the form of “functions.” Although the basic framework of automatic generation of hypertext schema has been explained before, we describe an overview of an experimental electronic library system CyberMagazine based on this framework to achieve basic electronic library facilities