In this book, all the major and frontier topics in the field of document analysis are brought together into a single volume creating a unique reference source.Highlights include:- Document structure analysis followed by OCR of Japanese, Tibetan and Indian printed scripts.- Online and offline handwritten text recognition approaches;- Japanese postal and Arabic check processing;- Document image quality modelling, mathematical expression recognition, graphics recognition, document information retrieval, super resolution text, metadata extraction in digital library;- Biometric and forensic aspects: individuality of handwriting detection;- Web document analysis, text and hypertext mining and bank check data mining.Containing chapters written by some of the most eminent researchers active in this field, this book can serve as a handbook for the research scholar as well as a supporting book for advanced graduate students interested in document processing or image analysis.
