Document Analysis Systems V [electronic resource] : 5th International Workshop, DAS 2002, Princeton, NJ, USA, August 19-21, 2002. Proceedings /

OCR Features and Systems -- Relating Statistical Image Differences and Degradation Features -- Script Identification in Printed Bilingual Documents -- Optimal Feature Extraction for Bilingual OCR -- Machine Recognition of Printed Kannada Text -- An Integrated System for the Analysis and the Recognition of Characters in Ancient Documents -- A Complete Tamil Optical Character Recognition System -- Distinguishing between Handwritten and Machine Printed Text in Bank Cheque Images -- Multi-expert Seal Imprint Verification System for Bankcheck Processing -- Automatic Reading of Traffic Tickets -- Handwriting Recognition -- A Stochastic Model Combining Discrete Symbols and Continuous Attributes and Its Application to Handwriting Recognition -- Top-Down Likelihood Word Image Generation Model for Holistic Word Recognition -- The Segmentation and Identification of Handwriting in Noisy Document Images -- The Impact of Large Training Sets on the Recognition Rate of Off-line Japanese Kanji Character Classifiers -- Automatic Completion of Korean Words for Open Vocabulary Pen Interface -- Using Stroke-Number-Characteristics for Improving Efficiency of Combined Online and Offline Japanese Character Classifiers -- Closing Gaps of Discontinuous Lines: A New Criterion for Choosing the Best Prolongation -- Classifiers and Leaning -- Classifier Adaptation with Non-representative Training Data -- A Learning Pseudo Bayes Discriminant Method Based on Difference Distribution of Feature Vectors -- Increasing the Number of Classifiers in Multi-classifier Systems: A Complementarity-Based Analysis -- Discovering Rules for Dynamic Configuration of Multi-classifier Systems -- Multiple Classifier Combination for Character Recognition: Revisiting the Majority Voting System and Its Variations -- Layout Analysis -- Correcting for Variable Skew -- Two Geometric Algorithms for Layout Analysis -- Text/Graphics Separation Revisited -- A Study on the Document Zone Content Classification Problem -- Logical Labeling of Document ImagesUsing Layout Graph Matching with Adaptive Learning -- A Ground-Truthing Tool for Layout Analysis Performance Evaluation -- Simple Layout Segmentation of Gray-Scale Document Images -- Tables and Forms -- Detecting Tables in HTML Documents -- Document-Form Identification Using Constellation Matching of Keywords Abstracted by Character Recognition -- Table Detection via Probability Optimization -- Complex Table Form Analysis Using Graph Grammar -- Detection Approaches for Table Semantics in Text -- A Theoretical Foundation and a Method for Document Table Structure Extraction and Decompositon -- Text Extraction -- Fuzzy Segmentation of Characters in Web Images Based on Human Colour Perception -- Word and Sentence Extraction Using Irregular Pyramid -- Word Searching in Document Images Using Word Portion Matching -- Scene Text Extraction in Complex Images -- Text Extraction in Digital News Video Using Morphology -- Indexing and Retrieval -- Retrieval by Layout Similarity of Documents Represented with MXY Trees -- Automatic Indexing of Newspaper Microfilm Images -- Improving Document Retrieval by Automatic Query Expansion Using Collaborative Learning of Term-Based Concepts -- Spotting Where to Read on Pages - Retrieval of Relevant Parts from Page Images -- Mining Documents for Complex Semantic Relations by the Use of Context Classification -- Hairetes: A Search Engine for OCR Documents -- Text Verification in an Automated System for the Extraction of Bibliographic Data -- Document Engineering -- smartFIX: A Requirements-Driven System for Document Analysis and Understanding -- Machine Learning of Generalized Document Templates for Data Extraction -- Machine Learning of Generalized Document Templates for Data Extraction -- Configuration REcognition Model for Complex Reverse Engineering Methods: 2(CREM) -- Electronic Document Publishing Using DjVu -- DAN: An Automatic Segmentation and Classification Engine for Paper Documents -- Document Reverse Engineering: From Paper to XML -- New Applications -- Human Interactive Proofs and Document Image Analysis -- Data GroundTruth, Complexity, and Evaluation Measures for Color Document Analysis -- Exploiting WWW Resources in Experimental Document Analysis Research -- An Automated Tachograph Chart Analysis System -- A Multimodal System for Accessing Driving Directions.