Progress In Automatic Reading Of Complex Typeset Pages

Philippe Vincent

doi:10.1117/12.952585

24 July 1989 Progress In Automatic Reading Of Complex Typeset Pages

Philippe Vincent

Proceedings Volume 1074, Imaging Workstations; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.952585
Event: OE/LASE '89, 1989, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

For a long time, automatic reading has been limited to optical character recognition. one year ago, except for one high end product, all industrial software or hardware products where limited to the reading of mono-column texts without images. This does not correspond to real life needs. In a current, company, pages which need to be transformed into electronic form are not only typewritten pages, but also complex pages from professional magazines, technical manuals, financial reports and tables, administrative documents, various directories, lists of spare parts etc... The real problem of automatic reading is to transform such complex paper pages including columns, images, drawings, titles, footnotes, legends, tables, occasionally in landscape format, into a computer text file without the help of an operator. Moreover, the problem is to perform this operation at an economical cost with limited computer resources in terms of processor and memory.

Citation Download Citation

Philippe Vincent "Progress In Automatic Reading Of Complex Typeset Pages", Proc. SPIE 1074, Imaging Workstations, (24 July 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.952585

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available