A Prototype of an Active Form System

This paper describes prototyping of a form processing system employing dot texture for printing input frames of the form. The dot texture is the texture composed of small dots. It eases the separation of handwritings from the input frames even under monochrome printing/reading environments and makes the system to process the handwritings according to the information embedded in the dot texture of the frames. The embedded information in the form dictates how to process the form so that we call the form "active form" being opposite to the passive form processed by the program stored in a document reader. This method can also be used to embed other information such as attribute of handwriting and so on. This paper presents the design, prototyping and some preliminary evaluation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICDAR
• Authors: Taro Shimamura, Bilan Zhu, Atsushi Masuda, Motoki Onuma, Takeshi Sakurada, Masaki Nakagawa, Yasushi Kuronuma
• Keywords: Document Analysis, Dot Texture, Form Processing, ICDAR 2003, Input Frames