Document Image Processing

Dear Colleagues,

Document Image Processing allows systems like OCR, writer identification, writer recognition, check processing, historical document processing, etc., to extract useful information from document images. In order to succeed, many preprocessing tasks can be required: Document skew detection and correction, slant removal, binarization and segmentation procedures, as well as other normalization tasks.

The intent of this Special Issue is to collect the experiences of leading scientists of the field, but also to be an assessment tool for people who are new to the world of document image processing.

This Special Issue intends to cover the following topics, but is not limited to them:

• Document Image Analysis
• Document Understanding
• Document Analysis Systems
• Document Processing
• Camera-based Document Processing
• Document Databases and Digital Libraries
• Mining Document Image Collections
• Document Forensics
• Historical Documents
• Segmentation and Restoration
• Performance Evaluation
• Camera and Scene Text Understanding
• Machine Learning for Document Analysis
• Human-Document Interaction
• Novel Applications

Indeed, any work concerning the use of document image processing, as well the development of new application procedures, may fall within the scope of this Special Issue. Of course, papers must present novel results, or the advancement of previously published data, and the matter should be dealt with scientific rigor.

Dr. Ergina Kavallieratou
Dr. Laurence Likforman
Guest Editors

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