Towards an Interactive Document Structure Recognition System

This paper presents a new research theme at our institute in the eld of document engineering; it describes a new general approach for document structure recognition and transformation. Several kinds of applications are presented, showing the great interest of such tools. The project that is described deals with three major research topics: cooperative recognition strategies in a multi-agents environment, automatic inference of a well-deened knowledge base, and high interactivity. The paper shows the problems detected so far and gives some main ideas currently discussed in our research group.