smartFIX statistics: towards systematic document analysis performance evaluation and optimization

  • Authors:
  • Benjamin Seidler;Markus Ebbecke;Michael Gillmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Insiders Technologies GmbH;Insiders Technologies GmbH;Insiders Technologies GmbH

  • Venue:
  • DAS '10 Proceedings of the 9th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Before buying a document analysis system, companies typically perform an intensive evaluation project whereby several candidates are invited to process a test set of selected representative documents. Moreover, after a system was purchased, it should continuously be optimized regarding the given customer-specific document appearance. In this paper we discuss a set of metrics for measuring the performance of common document analysis systems as base for comparing the systems, on the one hand, and for pair-wise comparing the performance of different configurations of one system as the base of system optimization, on the other hand. Finally, we present the smartFIX Statistics tool that is used daily by our customers to tune their smartFIX document analysis system towards higher economic efficiency and, thus, holds as proof of concept of the presented approach.