Transforming paper documents into XML format with WISDOM++

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 2-17

  Altamura, Oronzo ^a   Esposito, Floriana ^a   Malerba, Donato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Document image analysis; Induction of decision trees; Layout analysis; Transformation into HTML XML format

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CLASSIFICATION; DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION; DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT UNDERSTANDING; DOCUMENT-PROCESSING; LAYOUT ANALYSIS; PRE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; TRANSFORMATION INTO HTML/XML FORMAT;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DECISION TREES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; TEXT PROCESSING; XML;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 1942513613     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013569     Document Type: Article

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