Product Description: This book provides the first comprehensive look at the emerging field of web document analysis. It sets the scene in this new field by combining state-of-the-art reviews of challenges and opportunities with research papers by leading researchers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume contains papers selected for presentation at the5thIAPRWo- shoponDocumentAnalysisSystems(DAS2002) in Princeton, NJ on August 19-21, 2002. As such, it represents the contributions of an international com- nity of academic, industrial, and government researchers and re?ects the state of the art in such diverse domains as character recognition and classi?er design, text segmentation, table understanding, page layout analysis, and document - gineering, indexing, and retrieval, along with emerging application areas incl- ing the World-Wide Web, where algorithms developed for "traditional" paper documents take their place alongside completely new techniques...read more