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.

Part I: Digital Documents.- Documents.- Digital Formats.- Legal and Security Aspects.- Part II: Document Analysis.- Image Processing.- Document Image Analysis.- Part III: Content Processing.- Natural Language Processing.- Information Management.

Computer-readable documents have become ubiquitous in everyday life - from legacy documents that have been digitized, to new documents that have been created electronically. As the number of electronic documents continues to grow, so does the importance of digital methods for processing and managing these documents. This comprehensive text/reference provides a broad review of 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. A background knowledge of the area is not required, beyond familiarity with basic concepts of computer science and mathematics; deeper technical content is provided in discrete subsections that are not essential for an understanding of other parts of the book. Topics and features: With a Foreword by Professor George Nagy of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USAProvides a list of acronyms and a glossary of technical termsContains appendices covering key concepts in machine learning, and providing a case study on building an intelligent system for digital document and library managementDiscusses issues of security, and legal aspects of digital documentsExamines core issues of document image analysis, and image processing techniques of particular relevance to digitized documentsReviews the resources available for natural language processing, in addition to techniques of linguistic analysis for content handlingInvestigates methods for extracting and retrieving data/information from a document, including representation at a semantic level Undergraduate and graduate students will find the text a valuable general reference on the subject, and researchers will discover how their specific area of interest is interrelated with other disciplines involved in digital document processing. The book also supplies a repertoire of potential technological solutions for professionals working on digital documents. Dr. Stefano Ferilli is an associate professor at the University of Bari, Italy, where he is Director of the Interdepartmental Center for Logic and Applications.

From the reviews:“This book provides a background in the area of document image analysis. It has general information on image analysis, information on document image analysis, and then information specific to the application of word and phrase recognition within document images. … I would definitely recommend this book to novice researchers in document analysis and recognition, especially to those new to computer vision as well.” (Jeremy Svendsen, IAPR Newsletter, Vol. 34 (3), July-August, 2012)

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

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