This book brings all the major and frontier topics in the field of document analysis together into a single volume, creating a unique reference source that will be invaluable to a large audience of researchers, lecturers and students working in this field. With chapters written by some of the most distinguished researchers active in this field, this book addresses recent advances in digital document processing research and development.

Covering all the most recent advances in digital document processing research this book provides a timely overview of all the major topics in this area. A unique reference source.

All the major topics in the field of Digital Document Processing covered in a single volume Written by the pioneers and some of the most famous scientists in the field

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Reading Systems: An Introduction to Digital Document Processing.- Document Structure and Layout Analysis.- OCR Technologies for Machine Printed and Hand Printed Japanese Text.- Multi-Font Printed Tibetan OCR.- On OCR of a Printed Indian Script.- A Bayesian Network Approach for On-line Handwriting Recognition.- New Advances and New Challenges in On-Line Handwriting Recognition and Electronic Ink Management.- Off-Line Roman Cursive Handwriting Recognition.- Robustness Design of Industrial Strength Recognition Systems.- Arabic Cheque Processing System: Issues and Future Trends.- OCR of Printed Mathematical Expressions.- The State of the Art of Document Image Degradation Modelling.- Advances in Graphics Recognition.- An Introduction to Super-Resolution Text.- Meta-Data Extraction from Bibliographic Documents for the Digital Library.- Document Information Retrieval.- Biometric and Forensic Aspects of Digital Document Processing.- Web Document Analysis.- Semantic Structure Analysis of Web Documents.- Bank Cheque Data Mining: Integrated Cheque Recognition Technologies.