1. Preface

   • Daniel Lopresti
   • Jianying Hu
   • Ramanujan Kashi

   Special issue on document analysis systems Pages: 145 - 145

2. Statistical image differences, degradation features, and character distance metrics

   • Elisa Barney Smith
   • Xiaohui Qiu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 146 - 153

3. Adaptive classifiers for multisource OCR

   • Sriharsha Veeramachaneni
   • George Nagy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 154 - 166

4. Problem-adaptable document analysis and understanding for high-volume applications

   • Bertin Klein
   • Andreas R. Dengel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 180

5. Multiscale document description using rectangular granulometries

   • Andrew D. Bagdanov
   • Marcel Worring

   OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 191

6. Correcting for variable skew in document images

   • A. Lawrence Spitz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 192 - 200

7. Extraction of newspaper headlines from microfilm for automatic indexing

   • Chew Lim Tan
   • Qing Hong Liu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 210

8. Reports of the DAS02 working groups

   • Elisa Barney Smith
   • David Monn
   • Rolf Ingold

   OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 217