Volume 10, Number 09, July 2020

DOCPRO: A Framework for Building Document Processing Systems

  Authors

Ming-Jen Huang, Chun-Fang Huang, Chiching Wei, Foxit Software Inc., USA

  Abstract

With the recent advance of the deep neural network, we observe new applications of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) technologies. Especaully, when applying them to document processing, NLP and CV tasks are usually treated individually in research work and open source libraries. However, designing a real-world document processing system needs to weave NLP and CV tasks and their generated information together. There is a need to have a unified approach for processing documents containing textual and graphical elements with rich formats, diverse layout arrangement, and distinct semantics. This paper introduces a framework to fulfil this need. The framework includes a representation model definition for holding the generated information and specifications defining the coordination between the NLP and CV tasks.

  Keywords

Document Processing, Framework, Formal definition, Machine Learning.

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