This paper presents the XML-based formats ALTO, TEI, METS used for Digital Libraries and their interest for data representation in a Document Image Analysis and Recognition (DIAR) process. In the first part we briefly present these formats with focus on their adequacy for structural representation and modeling of DIAR data. The second part shows how these formats can be used in a reverse engineering process. Their implementation as a data representation framework will be shown.
Abdel Belaïd, Yves Rangoni, I. Falk