This page offers you some of my publications about "drawing interpretation". Feel free to download what ever you want. They are stored as encapsulated postscript compressed by gzip or WinZip. Gzip is a public domain compression tool from GNU. If you don't already have it, you will find it easily in the web (for various platforms).
1993, published paper (ICDAR'93), 6 pages, English text
Abstract:
This contribution deals with the problem of converting paper drawings into computer-based representations suitable for further use in CAD and CIM applications. While previous approaches have been able to solve this problem for certain application domains, the kernel system presented in this paper is adaptable to a wide variety of applications including engineering drawings and electronic circuit diagrams. The key elements of our approach are a knowledge-based interpretation process and a declarative specification language for defining meaningful graphical objects to be recognized in a drawing. The potential efficiency problems of a strictly declarative approach are overcome by automatically compiling graphic specifications into efficient procedures. The adaptability and efficiency of the kernel system are demonstrated using examples from several domains.
