DOCUMENT RECOGNITION SYSTEM WITH LAYOUT STRUCTURE GENERATOR

A document input system, with character recognition method, is used for converting printed matter, such a books and magazines, into code-format information. In order to improve this document recognition system's performance, an appropriate document structure analysis technique is indispensable. When storing data from general printed documents into a database, it is necessary to represent the document structure. Therefore, a document layout structure generation method is especially important. For this purpose, the authors have developed a document structure analysis method to generate a layout structure, as well as to detect such document elements as characters, pictures and figures. This method was developed on a personal computer. Its usability is described in this paper.