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DOCENG
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Satisficing scrolls: a shortcut to satisfactory layout
We present at a new approach to finding aesthetically pleasing page layouts. We do not aim to find an optimal layout, rather the aim is to find a layout which is not obviously wro...
Nathan Hurst, Kim Marriott
DOCENG
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Playback of mixed multimedia document
Many multimedia languages exist today to describe animated, interactive, 2D or 3D graphics and media elements, and each language has its merits. We studied the problems underlying...
Cyril Concolato, Jean Le Feuvre
DOCENG
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
PrintMonkey: giving users a grip on printing the web
Web content is notoriously difficult to capture on a printed page due to inconsistent and undesired results. Items that users may not want to print, such as media, navigation menu...
Jennifer Baldwin, James A. Rowson, Yvonne Coady
DOCENG
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Constructing a know-how repository of advices and warnings from procedural texts
In this paper, we show how a domain dependent know-how textual database of advices and warnings can be constructed from procedural texts. We show how arguments of type warnings an...
Lionel Fontan, Patrick Saint-Dizier
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
MathBrush: A System for Doing Math on Pen-Based Devices
Many on-line (interactive) mathematics recognition systems allow the creation of typeset equations, normally in LaTeX, but they do not support mathematical problem solving. In thi...
George Labahn, Edward Lank, Scott MacLean, Mirette...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On the Reading of Tables of Contents
This paper presents a framework for understanding tables of contents (TOC) of books, journals, and magazines. We propose a universal logical structure representation in terms of a...
Prateek Sarkar, Eric Saund
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Fast and Accurate Skew Estimation Based on Distance Transform
Document skew estimation is an important step in the process of document analysis. In this paper we discuss the properties of the distance transform of binarized documents and der...
Itay Bar Yosef, Nate Hagbi, Klara Kedem, Its'hak D...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
An Efficient Edge Based Technique for Text Detection in Video Frames
Both graphic text and scene text detection in video images with complex background and low resolution is still a challenging and interesting problem for researchers in the field o...
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Weihua Huang, Chew Lim ...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Two-Step Dewarping of Camera Document Images
Dewarping of camera document images has attracted a lot of interest over the last few years since warping not only reduces the document readability but also affects the accuracy o...
Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pr...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Handling of Surface Modifications for Robust Image Based Mail Piece Comparison
Image based mail piece identification is a new technology for optimizing the postal sorting process. Exploiting the mail piece surface uniqueness, characteristic features are used...
Katja Worm, Beate Meffert