Automatic Digital Document Processing and Management, 2011 Problems, Algorithms and Techniques Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Series

This text reviews the issues involved in handling and processing digital documents. Examining the full range of a document?s lifetime, the book covers acquisition, representation, security, pre-processing, layout analysis, understanding, analysis of single components, information extraction, filing, indexing and retrieval. Features: provides a list of acronyms and a glossary of technical terms; contains appendices covering key concepts in machine learning, and providing a case study on building an intelligent system for digital document and library management; discusses issues of security, and legal aspects of digital documents; examines core issues of document image analysis, and image processing techniques of particular relevance to digitized documents; reviews the resources available for natural language processing, in addition to techniques of linguistic analysis for content handling; investigates methods for extracting and retrieving data/information from a document.

Presents a broad review of the issues involved in handling and processing digital documents With a Foreword by Professor George Nagy of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA Provides a list of acronyms and a glossary of technical terms, in addition to appendices covering key concepts and a case study Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras