DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS

A perfectly parallel thinning algorithm, Y.Y. Zhang and P.S.P. Wang; background structure in document images, H.S. Baird; analysis of form images, D.-C Wang and S.N. Srihari; model-based analysis and understanding of check forms, T.H. Minh and H. Bunke; document structures - a survey, Y.Y. Tang and C.Y. Suen; automatic input of logic diagrams by recognizing loop-symbols and rectilinear connections, S.H. Kim and J.H. Kim; syntactic analysis of technical drawing dimensions, S. Collin and D. Colnet; recognition of elevation value in topographic maps by multi-angled parallelism, H. Yamada et al; character recognition by signature approximation, N. Papamarkos et al; an adaptive modular neural network with application to unconstrained character recognition, L. Mui et al; a model-based split-and-merge method for character string recognition, H. Nishida and S. Mori; handprinted Chinese character recognition using probability distribution feature, T.F. Li and S.S. Yu; an algorithm for matching OCR-generated text strings, S.V. Rice et al.