this book contains revised refereed papers selected from the presentations at the first international workshop on graphics recognition, held in university park, pa, usa, in august 1995.the 23 full papers included are divided into sections on low-level processing, vectorization and segmentation of scanned graphics documents; symbol and diagram recognition, map processing, interpretation of engineering drawings. each section contains both survey articles to assess the state of the art, and research papers presenting novel results. one section is devoted to a contest held to determine the best algorithm for detection of dashed lines in drawings. the final chapter summarizes the conclusions and recommendations of the discussions held during the workshop.