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Computer aided Tabular Data Extraction has always been a very challenging and error prone task because it demands both Spectral and Spatial Sanity of data. In this paper we discuss an approach for Tabular Data Extraction in the realm of…

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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…

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Table extraction from PDF and image documents is a ubiquitous task in the real-world. Perfect extraction quality is difficult to achieve with one single out-of-box model due to (1) the wide variety of table styles, (2) the lack of training…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Nancy Xin Ru Wang , Douglas Burdick , Yunyao Li

The task of table structure recognition aims to recognize the internal structure of a table, which is a key step to make machines understand tables. Currently, there are lots of studies on this task for different file formats such as ASCII…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zewen Chi , Heyan Huang , Heng-Da Xu , Houjin Yu , Wanxuan Yin , Xian-Ling Mao

Most search engines index the textual content of documents in digital libraries. However, scholarly articles frequently report important findings in figures for visual impact and the contents of these figures are not indexed. These contents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-09-11 William Brouwer , Saurabh Kataria , Sujatha Das , Prasenjit Mitra , C. L. Giles

While storing invoice content as metadata to avoid paper document processing may be the future trend, almost all of daily issued invoices are still printed on paper or generated in digital formats such as PDFs. In this paper, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Hien Thi Ha , Aleš Horák

Form understanding depends on both textual contents and organizational structure. Although modern OCR performs well, it is still challenging to realize general form understanding because forms are commonly used and of various formats. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Zilong Wang , Mingjie Zhan , Xuebo Liu , Ding Liang

Detection and recognition of text from scans and other images, commonly denoted as Optical Character Recognition (OCR), is a widely used form of automated document processing with a number of methods available. Yet OCR systems still do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Krzysztof Olejniczak , Milan Šulc

The biggest challenge in the field of image processing is to recognize documents both in printed and handwritten format. Optical Character Recognition OCR is a type of document image analysis where scanned digital image that contains either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Singh Vijendra , Nisha Vasudeva , Hem Jyotsana Parashar

Financial documents are essential sources of information for regulators, auditors, and financial institutions, particularly for assessing the wealth and compliance of Small and Medium-sized Businesses. However, SMB documents are often…

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Detecting manipulations in digital documents is becoming increasingly important for information verification purposes. Due to the proliferation of image editing software, altering key information in documents has become widely accessible.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Hailey Joren , Otkrist Gupta , Dan Raviv

Information extraction (IE) from unstructured documents remains a critical challenge in data processing pipelines. Traditional optical character recognition (OCR) methods and conventional parsing engines demonstrate limited effectiveness…

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Recent advancements in the area of Computer Vision with state-of-art Neural Networks has given a boost to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) accuracies. However, extracting characters/text alone is often insufficient for relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Vishwanath D , Rohit Rahul , Gunjan Sehgal , Swati , Arindam Chowdhury , Monika Sharma , Lovekesh Vig , Gautam Shroff , Ashwin Srinivasan

Tables have been an ever-existing structure to store data. There exist now different approaches to store tabular data physically. PDFs, images, spreadsheets, and CSVs are leading examples. Being able to parse table structures and extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Susie Xi Rao , Johannes Rausch , Peter Egger , Ce Zhang

In this paper we relate a number of parsing algorithms which have been developed in very different areas of parsing theory, and which include deterministic algorithms, tabular algorithms, and a parallel algorithm. We show that these…

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The analysis of historical documents is still a topical issue given the importance of information that can be extracted and also the importance given by the institutions to preserve their heritage. The main idea in order to characterize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Nizar Zaghden , Remy Mullot , Mohamed Adel Alimi

Table structure recognition is necessary for a comprehensive understanding of documents. Tables in unstructured business documents are tough to parse due to the high diversity of layouts, varying alignments of contents, and the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Sachin Raja , Ajoy Mondal , C V Jawahar

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

The first phase of table recognition is to detect the tabular area in a document. Subsequently, the tabular structures are recognized in the second phase in order to extract information from the respective cells. Table detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Marcus Liwicki , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Adnan Afzal , Muhammad Ahtsham Afzal , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Tables organize valuable content in a concise and compact representation. This content is extremely valuable for systems such as search engines, Knowledge Graph's, etc, since they enhance their predictive capabilities. Unfortunately, tables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ahmed Nassar , Nikolaos Livathinos , Maksym Lysak , Peter Staar