this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th international workshop on document analysis systems, das 2002, held in princeton, nj, usa in august 2002 with sponsorship from iapr.the 44 revised full papers presented together with 14 short papers were carefuly reviwed and selected for inclusion in the book. all current issues in document analysis systems are adressed. the papers are organized in topical sections on ocr features and systems, handwriting recognition, layout analysis, classifiers and learning, tables and forms, text extraction, indexing and retrieval, document engineering, and new applications.