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The automated analysis of technical documents is a problem which has been worked on for several years [19, 37, 16, 18], in many kinds of applications, including flow charts [1], mechanical engineering [8, 23], city maps (plats) [17, 27, 31], electrical circuitry [22, 13], hand-drawn figures [30] and geographical maps [38].
This work was partially financed by a “Contrat de stimulation” from INPL (Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine).
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Antoine, D., Collin, S., Tombre, K. (1992). Analysis of Technical Documents: The REDRAW System. In: Baird, H.S., Bunke, H., Yamamoto, K. (eds) Structured Document Image Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77281-8_18
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