Anyone else having issues with viewing this .pdf file? For example the word "databases" in the Abstract has some kind of letter spacing issues and overwrites part of itself.

Anyone want to guess the issue is with "DynamicPDF for Java v5.0.1" which generated the file?

Yes, the PDF itself contains gems such as `-1.1E-4 Tc`, which sets the character spacing to a Java-formatted float. PDF can't handle such numbers.

By using Google cache you lose formulas and figures but get the text back http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P9gUqzO...

Yes, the letter spacing is broken which makes it very tedious to read. This is a shame because it's a nice little article on a very useful technique.

This looks to be a paper published in this conference: IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries, 2000. Proceedings.

You can find a copy in IEEE xplore, which probably has a better formatted article.