Editorial message: special track on document engineering

ABSTRACT

Document Engineering is a discipline within computer science that investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. Document engineering is concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, store, compact, access and maintain documents. The fields of document recognition and retrieval have grown rapidly in recent years. This development has been fueled by the emergence of new application areas such as the World Wide Web (WWW), digital libraries, and video- and camera-based OCR. The use of OCR is spreading from high-volume, niche domains to more general tasks, including the processing of noisy "real-world" documents, photocopies, and faxes.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  A. General Literature
  A.0 GENERAL

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.0 General

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.5 PATTERN RECOGNITION
      I.5.0 General
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.1 Document and Text Editing
      I.7.5 Document Capture