The discipline of narratology has long recognized the need to classify documents as instances of different text types. We have discovered that classification is as applicable to h...
This paper describes a complete system for reading typewritten lexicon words in noisy images - in this case museum index cards. The system is conceptually simple, and straightforw...
Our aim is to achieve writer identification process thanks to a fractal analysis of handwriting style. For each writer, a set of characteristics is extracted. They are specific to...
This paper addresses the difficult problem of symbol spotting for graphic documents. We propose an approach where each graphic document is indexed as a text document by using the ...
In this paper, we propose SPRITE (Selective PRogressive Index Tuning by Examples), a scalable system for text retrieval in a structured P2P network. Under SPRITE, each peer is res...