Automatic Digital Document Processing and Management

Automatic Digital Document Processing and Management Synopsis

This text reviews the issues involved in handling and processing digital documents. Examining the full range of a document's lifetime, the book covers acquisition, representation, security, pre-processing, layout analysis, understanding, analysis of single components, information extraction, filing, indexing and retrieval. Features:

• provides a list of acronyms and a glossary of technical terms
• contains appendices covering key concepts in machine learning, and providing a case study on building an intelligent system for digital document and library management
• discusses issues of security, and legal aspects of digital documents
• examines core issues of document image analysis, and image processing techniques of particular relevance to digitized documents
• reviews the resources available for natural language processing, in addition to techniques of linguistic analysis for content handling
• investigates methods for extracting and retrieving data/information from a document