Extracting text from PostScript

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 481-491

  Nevill Manning, Craig G ^a   Reed, Todd ^a   Witten, Ian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Full text indexing; Page layout; PostScript interpreter; Text extraction

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; TEXT EXTRACTION;

PROGRAM INTERPRETERS;

EID: 0032050796     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(19980425)28:5<481::AID-SPE163>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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