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Welcome to the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng) 2002, the second in a series of meetings on the emerging area of document engineer-ing, which investigates, from the perspective of computer science, systems for creating, managing, and maintaining documents in any form and in all media.DocEng'02 is the second in what we hope will be a long series of meet-ings. The first of the series, DocEng'01, was held in Atlanta, GA during November of 2001. The symposium continues the tradition of several other con-ferences, including the long series of biennial Electronic Publishing (EP) confer-ences and Principles of Document Processing workshops, the 2000 Digital Documents and Electronic Publishing conference, the 1988 ACM Conference on Document Processing Systems, and the 1981 ACM Symposium on Text Manipulation.DocEng'02 once again joins with the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) to present this symposium. We wish to thank the CIKM organizing committee for their assistance.The technical program results from the efforts of the Program Committee and additional reviewers. Each paper received at least three reviews. We thank the PC and reviewers for their careful reviews and prompt efforts, especially as our review schedule coincided with many committee members' vacation schedules. Forty-six papers were submitted and the committee selected twenty-one papers for presentation at DocEng'02.We hope you will agree with us that the Symposium's papers reflect a broad and dynamic area of research, and share with us our excitement over the directions and activities presented here.