Towards a canonical and structured representation of PDF documents through reverse engineering

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1050-1054

  Rigamonti, Maurizio ^a   Bloechle, Jean Luc ^a   Hadjar, Karim ^a   Lalanne, Denis ^a   Ingold, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

ELECTRONIC EXTRACTION; PDF DOCUMENTS; STRUCTURE EXTRACTION;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 33745541768     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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