Conversion of PDF documents into HTML: a case study of document image analysis

Author

Rahman, Fuad ; Alam, Hassan

Author_Institution

BCL Technol. Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

9-12 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

87

Abstract

Portable document format (PDF) has become the de facto standard in many fields because of its independence of local formatting restrictions and its accurate reproducibility. On the other hand, HTML documents are becoming an integral form of our lives by being the dominant form for information exchange within the World Wide Web environment. This paper discusses how image-processing techniques can be used to perform document layout analysis of complex multiple-column PDF documents. This analysis allows the conversion of these documents into the HTML format keeping the logical and physical layout intact.

Keywords

Internet; document image processing; hypermedia markup languages; HTML; PDF documents; World Wide Web; document image analysis; hypertext markup language; image-processing techniques; information exchange; portable document format; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer aided software engineering; HTML; Image analysis; Image converters; Meteorological radar; Reproducibility of results; Space technology; Text analysis; White spaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2004. Conference Record of the Thirty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8104-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2003.1291873

Filename

1291873