Automated analysis of images in documents for intelligent document search

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 65-81

  Lu, Xiaonan ^a   Kataria, Saurabh ^b   Brouwer, William J ^b   Wang, James Z ^a,b   Mitra, Prasenjit ^a,b   Giles, C Lee ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Dplot; Data extraction; Document search; Figure; Image; Text block extraction

Indexed keywords

2-DPLOT; DATA EXTRACTION; DOCUMENT SEARCH; FIGURE; IMAGE; TEXT BLOCK EXTRACTION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABELS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; METADATA; PHOTOGRAPHY; USER INTERFACES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 67650417928     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-009-0081-0     Document Type: Article

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