An Architecture for Ink Annotations on Web Documents

  • Authors:
  • Sriram Ramachandran;Ramanujan Kashi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

There have been recent improvements in documenttechnologies like the standardization of object interfacesto access and manipulate the properties of webdocuments. There has also been significant progress inpen based computing for recognition of digital ink indesktops, tablets and handheld devices. These havenecessitated a need for further research on annotationarchitectures for digital documents, specifically pen-basedannotation systems. This paper presents anattempt to leverage the new standards of DHTML andW3C DOM that are being gradually implemented bypopular browsers, to build a prototype of an inkannotation system with common components acrossbrowsers. One of the primary goals in this study is tosemantically link ink data with underlying documentelements like text and images. The system has threecomponents: a) Ink capture and rendering b) InkUnderstanding, which recognizes and associates ink withthe underlying document and c) Ink storage and retrieval.