Document Image Analysis: Current Trends and Challenges in Graphics Recognition

The book focuses on one of the key issues in document image processing – graphical symbol recognition, which is a sub-field of the larger research domain of pattern recognition. It covers several approaches: statistical, structural and syntactic, and discusses their merits and demerits considering the context. Through comprehensive experiments, it also explores whether these approaches can be combined.

The book presents research problems, state-of-the-art methods that convey basic steps as...