Fast title extraction method for business documents

Yutaka Katsuyama; Satoshi Naoi

doi:10.1117/12.270072

3 April 1997 Fast title extraction method for business documents

Yutaka Katsuyama, Satoshi Naoi

Proceedings Volume 3027, Document Recognition IV; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.270072
Event: Electronic Imaging '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Conventional electronic document filing systems are inconvenient because the user must specify the keywords in each document for later searches. To solve this problem, automatic keyword extraction methods using natural language processing and character recognition have been developed. However, these methods are slow, especially for japanese documents. To develop a practical electronic document filing system, we focused on the extraction of keyword areas from a document by image processing. Our fast title extraction method can automatically extract titles as keywords from business documents. All character strings are evaluated for similarity by rating points associated with title similarity. We classified these points as four items: character sitting size, position of character strings, relative position among character strings, and string attribution. Finally, the character string that has the highest rating is selected as the title area. The character recognition process is carried out on the selected area. It is fast because this process must recognize a small number of patterns in the restricted area only, and not throughout the entire document. The mean performance of this method is an accuracy of about 91 percent and a 1.8 sec. processing time for an examination of 100 Japanese business documents.

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Yutaka Katsuyama and Satoshi Naoi "Fast title extraction method for business documents", Proc. SPIE 3027, Document Recognition IV, (3 April 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.270072

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