An Open Architecture for End-to-End Document Analysis Benchmarking

ISBN: 978-1-4577-1350-7International audienceIn this paper we present a fully operational, scalable and open architecture allowing to perform end-to-end document analysis benchmarking without needing to develop the whole pipeline. By decomposing the whole analysis process into coarse grained tasks, and by building upon community provided state-of-the art algorithms, our architecture allows virtually any combination of elementary document analysis algorithms, regardless their running system environment, programming language or data structures. Its flexible structure makes it very straightforward to plug in new experimental algorithms, compare them to equivalent other algorithms, and observe its effects on end-to-end tasks without need to install, compile or otherwise interact with any other software than one's own