Abstract
Despite the expansion of electronic data processing paper remains the most popular medium for display, storage and transmission of information for persons and organisations. With growing office automation the paper-computer interface becomes increasingly important. To be useful, this interface must be able to handle documents containing text as well as graphics, and convert them into a standardized electronic representation.
In this paper we describe a prototypical system for the analysis and interpretation of paper documents, SODA (System for Office Document Analysis), using knowledge based image analysis applied to the scanned raster images of the documents. which e.g. is able to extract the key elements of a business letter like its sender, date, and reference. The internal computer representation of the recognized document considers the standardized Office Document Architecture (ODA) so that a description of the layout and logic structure can be generated for a large variety of documents.
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Kreich, J., Luhn, A., Maderlechner, G. (1990). Document Image Understanding. In: Schwärtzel, H., Mizin, I.A. (eds) Advanced Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93464-3_15
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