AN OVERVIEW OF DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEMS

This paper presents an overview of Document Image Analysis Systems, their composing modules, the approaches these modules use, as well as uses for these applications. One of the main goals is to present some of the most important technologies and methods behind the Document Image Analysis domain in order to evaluate the best approach when dealing with real-world documents. The other main goal is to ensure a foundation for those starting to build such complex software systems and to give an elaborate technical answer to the question: “How to make physical documents available to a large number of people?”