Everything about Document processing
Digitalisation of analog documents
Document processing is a field of research and a set of production processes aimed at making an analog document digital. Document processing does not simply aim to photograph or scan a document to obtain a digital image, but also to make it digitally intelligible. This includes extracting the structure of the document or the layout and then the content, which can take the form of text or images. The process can involve traditional computer vision algorithms, convolutional neural networks or manual labor. The problems addressed are related to semantic segmentation, object detection, optical character recognition (OCR), handwritten text recognition (HTR) and, more broadly, transcription, whether automatic or not. The term can also include the phase of digitizing the document using a scanner and the phase of interpreting the document, for example using natural language processing (NLP) or image classification technologies. It is applied in many industrial and scientific fields for the optimization of administrative processes, mail processing and the digitization of analog archives and historical documents. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Document processingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document ProcessingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: 1990 census of population and housingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Automatic document processing: A surveyCited 96 times
- Go sideways: Optical character recognitionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Computer visionA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Automatic document processing: A survey
Query processing in a multimedia document system
Towards content-oriented patent document processing
Document processing for automatic knowledge acquisition
Document processing in a relational database system
TEXPROS: AN INTELLIGENT DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM
Incremental multistrategy learning for document processing
Speech segmentation and spoken document processing
🆕 Influential since 2022
DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing
Integration in Multiple-Document Comprehension: A Natural Language Processing Approach
AI-driven intelligent document processing for healthcare and insurance
Scientific document processing: challenges for modern learning methods
AI-driven intelligent document processing for banking and finance
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕1990 census of population and housingUnited States. Bureau of the Census · 1992
HTMLThomas A. Powell · 1998
The digital documentBruce Duyshart · 1997
Looking good in printRoger C. Parker, Carrie Beverly · 1988- 📕SIDPERS user manualUnited States Department of the Army · 1976
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text ProcessingAlexander Gelbukh · 2001
Introduction to information retrievalChristopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan · 2008
Managing Electronic RecordsRobert F. Smallwood · 2013
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