Document Layout Analysis

Document layout analysis (DLA) is a crucial step towards the  development of an effective document image processing system. In the  early days of document image processing, DLA was not considered as a  complete and complex research problem, rather just a pre-processing step  having some minor challenges. The main reason for that is the type of  layout being considered for processing was simple. Researchers started  paying attention to this complex problem as they come across a large  variety of documents. This book presents a clear view of the past,  present, and future of DLA, and it also discusses two recent methods  developed to address the said problem.