Umesh D. Dixit and M. S. Shirdhonkar

The digitization of documents and their availability over the network demands solution toward content based document image analysis, indexing, searching and retrieval. Signature, Logo and Layout of the documents present convincing evidence and provide an important form of indexing for effective document image retrieval in a variety of applications. This paper describes methods and techniques developed for document image analysis and retrieval by researchers.

Feature extraction, Image analysis, Document retrieval, Pre-processing, Document indexing