Impact of configurable processor in parallel architecture for document management.

With the recent developments in multimedia and telecommunication technologies, content-based information retrieval is becoming increasingly important support for various areas such as digital libraries, interactive video,... The algorithms involved in real multimedia application need to handle, as quickly as possible, a large volume of data that is a time consuming which can limit the impact of this application. In this paper we describe a system, based on a configurable processor, designed to accelerate the indexing document information (text, images, table...). The architecture is suitable for European STRETCH project (Storage and RETrieval by Content of imaged documents).