An object-oriented form description language and approach to handwritten form processing

Author

Cracknell, C. ; Downton, A.C. ; Du, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

18-20 Aug 1997

Firstpage

180

Abstract

Virtually all form processing systems rely upon a form description file which holds some form design specific information. Such files are written in a form description language. This paper presents a novel form description language and a new approach to form processing which makes full use of the language. The form description language which is presented is novel in two ways: firstly, it allows the comprehensive utilisation of contextual information; secondly, it enables the storage of form models which economically describe the variations in the form design which are allowed for a particular class of forms

Keywords

document image processing; object-oriented languages; page description languages; contextual information; form description file; form design specific information; form models; form processing systems; handwritten form processing; object-oriented form description language; Context modeling; Design engineering; Geometry; Humans; Image analysis; Object oriented modeling; Process design; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 1997., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ulm

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7898-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.1997.619837

Filename

619837