Making documents work: Challenges for document understanding

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 1026-1035

  Dengel, Andreas R ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Categorization; Document understanding; Message understanding; System engineering; Table analysis

Indexed keywords

CATEGORIZATION; DOCUMENT UNDERSTANDING; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; INHERENT COMPLEXITY; MESSAGE UNDERSTANDING; SUB-PROBLEMS; TABLE ANALYSIS;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 1942513612     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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