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Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition
David Doermann • Karl Tombre Editors
Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition
With 339 Figures and 98 Tables
Editors David Doermann University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA
Karl Tombre Universit´e de Lorraine Nancy, France
ISBN 978-0-85729-858-4 ISBN 978-0-85729-859-1 (eBook) ISBN 978-0-85729-860-7 (print and electronic bundle) DOI 10.1007/978-0-85729-859-1 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht Library of Congress Control Number: 2014932686 © Springer-Verlag London 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
In the beginning, there was only OCR. After some false starts, OCR became a competitive commercial enterprise in the 1950’s. A decade later there were more than 50 manufacturers in the US alone. With the advent of microprocessors and inexpensive optical scanners, the price of OCR dropped from tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars to that of a bottle of wine. Software displaced the racks of electronics. By 1985 anybody could program and test their ideas on a PC, and then write a paper about it (and perhaps even patent it). We know, however, very little about current commercial methods
