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The document titles give an important information about documents. This is why they are frequently used to obtain document keywords. We use them to determine document intentions. To obtain some textual details, we use special information extraction ...

In multi-page documents, document elements belonging to the same component usually share format regularity. We call this regularity 'document component intrinsic format consistency' (DCIFC). We present a new document analysis method based on DCIFC, ...

When a page of a book is scanned or photocopied, textual noise (extraneous symbols from the neighboring page) and/or non-textual noise (black borders, speckles, ...) appear along the border of the document. Existing document analysis methods can handle ...