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Tabular data in digital documents is widely used to express compact and important information for readers. However, it is challenging to parse tables from unstructured digital documents, such as PDFs and images, into machine-readable format…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Bin Xiao , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Ala Abu Alkheir

This paper presents the novel approach towards table structure recognition by leveraging the guided anchors. The concept differs from current state-of-the-art approaches for table structure recognition that naively apply object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Marcus Liwicki , Muhammad Noman Afzal , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Incorporating external knowledge bases in traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) relies on parsing the document, followed by querying a language model with the parsed information via in-context learning. While effective for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jacob Si , Mike Qu , Michelle Lee , Marek Rei , Yingzhen Li

The extraction and use of diverse knowledge from numerous documents is a pressing challenge in intelligent information retrieval. Documents contain elements that require different recognition methods. Table recognition typically consists of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Takaya Kawakatsu

Table structure recognition is an essential part for making machines understand tables. Its main task is to recognize the internal structure of a table. However, due to the complexity and diversity in their structure and style, it is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhenrong Zhang , Jianshu Zhang , Jun Du

Recently, significant progress has been made applying machine learning to the problem of table structure inference and extraction from unstructured documents. However, one of the greatest challenges remains the creation of datasets with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Brandon Smock , Rohith Pesala , Robin Abraham

Information extraction from semi-structured webpages provides valuable long-tailed facts for augmenting knowledge graph. Relational Web tables are a critical component containing additional entities and attributes of rich and diverse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Daheng Wang , Prashant Shiralkar , Colin Lockard , Binxuan Huang , Xin Luna Dong , Meng Jiang

Many joint entity relation extraction models setup two separated label spaces for the two sub-tasks (i.e., entity detection and relation classification). We argue that this setting may hinder the information interaction between entities and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Yijun Wang , Changzhi Sun , Yuanbin Wu , Hao Zhou , Lei Li , Junchi Yan

Table structure recognition is a crucial part of document image analysis domain. Its difficulty lies in the need to parse the physical coordinates and logical indices of each cell at the same time. However, the existing methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Zengyuan Guo , Yuechen Yu , Pengyuan Lv , Chengquan Zhang , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang , Kun Yao , Jingtuo Liu , Jingdong Wang

Structured data extraction from tables plays a crucial role in document image analysis for scanned documents and digital archives. Although many methods have been proposed to detect table structures and extract cell contents, accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Suren Bandara

Recently, Table Structure Recognition (TSR) task, aiming at identifying table structure into machine readable formats, has received increasing interest in the community. While impressive success, most single table component-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Hao Liu , Xin Li , Mingming Gong , Bing Liu , Yunfei Wu , Deqiang Jiang , Yinsong Liu , Xing Sun

Scientific documents contain tables that list important information in a concise fashion. Structure and content extraction from tables embedded within PDF research documents is a very challenging task due to the existence of visual features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Pratik Kayal , Mrinal Anand , Harsh Desai , Mayank Singh

Table structure recognition (TSR) holds widespread practical importance by parsing tabular images into structured representations, yet encounters significant challenges when processing complex layouts involving merged or empty cells.…

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Document-level Relation Extraction (DocRE) involves identifying relations between entities across multiple sentences in a document. Evidence sentences, crucial for precise entity pair relationships identification, enhance focus on essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Khai Phan Tran , Xue Li

We present a new table structure recognition (TSR) approach, called TSRFormer, to robustly recognizing the structures of complex tables with geometrical distortions from various table images. Unlike previous methods, we formulate table…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Jiawei Wang , Weihong Lin , Chixiang Ma , Mingze Li , Zheng Sun , Lei Sun , Qiang Huo

Superior to state-of-the-art approaches which compete in table recognition with 67 annotated government reports in PDF format released by {\it ICDAR 2013 Table Competition}, this paper contributes a novel paradigm leveraging large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Miao Fan , Doo Soon Kim

Tables convey factual and quantitative data with implicit conventions created by humans that are often challenging for machines to parse. Prior work on table recognition (TR) has mainly centered around complex task-specific combinations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 ShengYun Peng , Aishwarya Chakravarthy , Seongmin Lee , Xiaojing Wang , Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan , Duen Horng Chau

Portable Document Format (PDF) files are dominantly used for storing and disseminating scientific research, legal documents, and tax information. LaTeX is a popular application for creating PDF documents. Despite its advantages, LaTeX is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nan Jiang , Shanchao Liang , Chengxiao Wang , Jiannan Wang , Lin Tan

Facial expression recognition, as a vital computer vision task, is garnering significant attention and undergoing extensive research. Although facial expression recognition algorithms demonstrate impressive performance on high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jingyi Shi

Visual Relation Extraction (VRE) is a powerful means of discovering relationships between entities within visually-rich documents. Existing methods often focus on manipulating entity features to find pairwise relations, yet neglect the more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Xiangnan Chen , Qian Xiao , Juncheng Li , Duo Dong , Jun Lin , Xiaozhong Liu , Siliang Tang