HP Labs India

Research - Paper in the Digital Enterprise project

Paper continues to exist in large volumes in spite of futuristic predictions of a ‘paperless world’. It persists along the edges of a digital organization – in communication between organizations and between organizations and their customers. The affable nature of paper makes it widely accepted, highly affordable, technology agnostic and unplugged. However, the disconnect between paper and digital systems leads to inefficiencies in large enterprises.

The Paper in the Digital Enterprise (PriDE) project at HP Labs India aspires to create a unique and novel set of technologies to enable seamless co-existence of paper in a digital enterprise. Our aim is to create new technologies for on-ramps, workflows and off-ramps in enterprises. The core technology concepts include the interpretation of handwritten annotations on documents, comparison and synchronization of changes from a paper document to its electronic counterpart, intelligent document image enhancement, new forms of machine readability that simplify the processing of paper documents and security of print workflows.

The main research threads in PriDE are:

• Intelligent Document Cleanup
• Paper as an Interface
• Paper Widgets
• Secure Print Workflows
• Comparison and synchronization of content
• Semi-supervised classification of document images

Some of our past work includes:

• Trusted Hardcopy - Security of Paper Documents

The areas of research relevant to PriDE are:

• Document image analysis and understanding
• Offline Handwriting recognition
• Computer vision
• Pattern recognition
• Information theory
• Machine learning
• Security related to Printing

 

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This page was last updated on November 17, 2009