Development of a prototype system for automatic database construction from academic journals

摘要

A prototype system was developed for automatically constructing a database from scientific and technical journal articles in print. When a page of a printed technical paper is scanned with an image scanner, the system distinguishes between tables, graphs, and texts. And then in the texts, the logical attributes such as the title, the authors, the author's affiliations, the abstract, are recognized by using the page layout model. Lastly, the texts are processed with an OCR.