DocMining: A cooperative platform for heterogeneous document interpretation according to user-defined scenarios

The DocMining platform is aimed at providing a general framework for document interpretation. It integrates document processing units coming from different sources and communicating through the document being interpreted. A task to be performed is represented by a scenario that describes the units to be run, and each unit is associated with a contract that describes the parameters, data and results of the unit as well as the way to run it. A controller interprets the scenario and triggers each required document processing unit at its turn. Documents, scenarios and contracts are all represented in XML, to make data manipulation and communications easier.