Year 2016

• Extraction of information from born-digital PDF documents for reproducible research

  Publication

  • B. Wiszniewski
  • J. Siciarek

  - Journal of Advanced Management - Year 2016

  Born-digital PDF electronic documents might reasonably be expected to preserve useful data units of their source originals that suffice to produce executable papers for reproducible research. Unfortunately, developers of authoring tools may adopt arbitrary PDF generation strategies, producing a plethora of internal data representations. Such common information units as text paragraphs, tables, function graphs and flow diagrams,...

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Year 2014

• Semantic Driven Table Understanding in Born-Digital Documents

  Publication

  • J. Siciarek

  - Year 2014

  This paper presents a new approach to table understanding, suitable for born-digital PDF documents. Advance beyond the current state of the art in table understanding is provided by the proposed reverse MVC method, which takes advantage of only partial logic structure loss (degradation) in born-digital PDF documents, as opposed to unrecoverable loss (deterioration) taking place in scan based PDF documents.

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Year 2013

• For Your Eyes Only – Biometric Protection of PDF Documents

  Publication

  • J. Siciarek
  • M. Smiatacz
  • B. Wiszniewski

  - Year 2013

  The paper introduces a concept of a digital document content encryption/decryption with facial biometric data coming from a legitimate user. Access to the document content is simple and straightforward, especially during collaborative work with mobile devices equipped with cameras. Various contexts of document exchange are presented with regard to the next generation pro-active digital documents proposed by authors. An important...

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