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EP
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Autotag: A Tool for Creating Structured Document Collections from Printed Materials
We report on the design and implementation of a system which automates the process of capturing structured documents from the optically recognized form of printed materials. The sy...
Kazem Taghva, Allen Condit, Julie Borsack
EP
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An Interface for the Interactive Design of Artistic Screens
This work presents the concepts and the tools involved in the interactive design of artistic screens. The screen elements are derived from a small set of analytical contours provid...
N. Rudaz, Roger D. Hersch, Victor Ostromoukhov
EP
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Dynamic Link Inclusion in Online PDF Journals
Two complementary de facto standards for the publication of electronic documents are HTML on the World Wide Web and Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) language for use wi...
Steve G. Probets, David F. Brailsford, Les Carr, W...
EP
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Mathematical Tools for Computer-Generated Ornamental Patterns
This article presents mathematical tools for computer-generated ornamental patterns, with a particular attention payed to Islamic patterns. The article shows how, starting from a p...
Victor Ostromoukhov
EP
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Spotting Topics with the Singular Value Decomposition
Abstract. The singular value decomposition, or SVD , has been studied in the past as a tool for detecting and understanding patterns in a collection of documents. We show how the m...
Charles K. Nicholas, Randall Dahlberg
EP
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Legibility of Condensed Perceptually-Tuned Grayscale Fonts
We analyze the quality of condensed text on LCD displays, generated with unhinted and hinted bilevel characters, with traditional anti-aliased and with perceptually-tuned grayscale...
Robert A. Morris, Roger D. Hersch, A. Coimbra
EP
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Window-Based Method for Automatic Typographic Parameter Extraction
The synthesis of existing fonts with characters represented by parametrized structure elements requires determining a set of font-specific global and local parameters. Parameters c...
Jacky Hertz, Changyuan Hu, Jakob Gonczarowski, Rog...
EP
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Design and Use of a Multiple-Alphabet Font with Omega
Yannis Haralambous, John Plaice
EP
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Simplification of the Arabic Script: Three Different Approaches and their Implementations
Abstract. In 1945, the Cairo Academy for the Arabic Language opened a contest to find the best project for simplification of the Arabic writing system. They received about 200 repl...
Yannis Haralambous