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