| 摘要 |
<p>A family of form types having a common set of data types, can be transformed into a meta-form which contains all of the data types which are arranged into a single layout. The location of the fields on the meta-form are specified by a meta-form definition data set. The single meta-form definition data set is substituted in a character recognition processor, for the plurality of form definition data sets which specify the layouts of the original form types in the family. This speeds the character recognition operation by not requiring a time consuming search for customized form definitions. Furthermore, by transforming the layout of field images for each form type in a family, into a single layout in the meta-form, the fields of the meta-form can be quickly located to speed the decompression of meaningful parts of the compressed document form image, without requiring the time consuming decompression of other parts which are not of interest. <IMAGE></p> |
