Selective Analysis for Automatic Abstracting: Evaluating

 Description: In any domain, the use of information systems leads to the problem of converting the existing archives of paper documents into a format suitable for the computerized system. In this area, most of the attention has probably been given to strutured document analysis, i.e. the automated analysis of business document such as letters, forms, documentation, manuals etc., including the well-known area of character recognition. But document analysis is also a powerful tool in technical domains such as architecture, where large quantitities of drawings of various kinds are available on paper. In this paper we shortly present the state of the art in technical drawing analysis and we investigate the suitably of document analysis to the conversion from paper to architectural databases