DAS-Discussion: DAS 2024

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== DAS Working Subgroup Meeting: Datasets and Benchmarks ==
Authors:
* Faisal Shafait

=== Progress in the last 10 years (DAS 2004) ===
* Open source OCR – gOCR
* Should we start using cameras?
* Handwriting recognition – only in the hand of experts
* Keynote talks
* Thomas M. Breuel The future of document imaging in the era of electronic documents [http://www.dsi.unifi.it/DAS04/Breuel-DAS04.pdf]
* Franco Lotti Image quality issues in digitization projects of historical documents [http://www.dsi.unifi.it/DAS04/Lotti-DAS04.pdf]

=== Progress in the next 10 years ===
* Paper will be used but less and less over time
* Reusable ink
* Scanners will disappear
* Mobile based document recognition will mature to a state that it matches the performance of scanned documents under (almost) all capture conditions
* Majority of “pre-processing” problems will be solved for historical document processing
* Will there be a DAS 2024? Yes :)
* What will be the topics we will be addressing?

=== DAS 2014 keynote talks ===
* An Inside Look into ABBYY OCR Technology
* From Academia to Industry, the knowledge transfert in Document Analysis
* Document Evolution drives Document Analysis

=== The Next Big Thing? ===
* Understanding “Born-Digital” documents
* Something “Magical” for knowledge extraction from documents – similar to LSTM for handwriting recognition