Interest in the automatic processing and analysis of document images has been rapidly increasing during the past few years. This book addresses the different subfields of document image analysis, including preprocessing and segmentation, form processing, handwriting recognition, line drawing and map processing, and contextual processing.

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.