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Table Extraction (TE) consists in extracting tables from PDF documents, in a structured format which can be automatically processed. While numerous TE tools exist, the variety of methods and techniques makes it difficult for users to choose…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Marijan Soric , Cécile Gracianne , Ioana Manolescu , Pierre Senellart

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

Pool of knowledge available to the mankind depends on the source of learning resources, which can vary from ancient printed documents to present electronic material. The rapid conversion of material available in traditional libraries to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Akmal Jahan Mac , Roshan G Ragel

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

We propose a novel high-performance and interpretable canonical deep tabular data learning architecture, TabNet. TabNet uses sequential attention to choose which features to reason from at each decision step, enabling interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Sercan O. Arik , Tomas Pfister

Localizing page elements/objects such as tables, figures, equations, etc. is the primary step in extracting information from document images. We propose a novel end-to-end trainable deep network, (CDeC-Net) for detecting tables present in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Madhav Agarwal , Ajoy Mondal , C. V. Jawahar

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

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

Tabular data plays a pivotal role in various fields, making it a popular format for data manipulation and exchange, particularly on the web. The interpretation, extraction, and processing of tabular information are invaluable for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Marco Cremaschi , Blerina Spahiu , Matteo Palmonari , Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz

The abundance of the data in the Internet facilitates the improvement of extraction and processing tools. The trend in the open data publishing encourages the adoption of structured formats like CSV and RDF. However, there is still a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Mikhail Galkin , Dmitry Mouromtsev , Sören Auer

Understanding the semantics of tables at scale is crucial for tasks like data integration, preparation, and search. Table understanding methods aim at detecting a table's topic, semantic column types, column relations, or entities. With the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Madelon Hulsebos , Sneha Gathani , James Gale , Isil Dillig , Paul Groth , Çağatay Demiralp

Table extraction has long been a pervasive problem in financial services. This is more challenging in the image domain, where content is locked behind cumbersome pixel format. Luckily, advances in deep learning for image segmentation, OCR,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 William Watson , Bo Liu

A significant portion of the data available today is found within tables. Therefore, it is necessary to use automated table extraction to obtain thorough results when data-mining. Today's popular state-of-the-art methods for table…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Zach Colter , Morteza Fayazi , Zineb Benameur-El , Serafina Kamp , Shuyan Yu , Ronald Dreslinski

This paper presents an end-to-end system for fact extraction and verification using textual and tabular evidence, the performance of which we demonstrate on the FEVEROUS dataset. We experiment with both a multi-task learning paradigm to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Neema Kotonya , Thomas Spooner , Daniele Magazzeni , Francesca Toni

Tables have gained significant attention in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to their complex and flexible structure. Unlike linear text inputs, tables are two-dimensional, encompassing formats…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xiaofeng Wu , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu

Tabular data is often hidden in text, particularly in medical diagnostic reports. Traditional machine learning (ML) models designed to work with tabular data, cannot effectively process information in such form. On the other hand, large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Aleksa Bisercic , Mladen Nikolic , Mihaela van der Schaar , Boris Delibasic , Pietro Lio , Andrija Petrovic

Recent advancements in deep learning for tabular data have shown promise, but challenges remain in achieving interpretable and lightweight models. This paper introduces Table2Image, a novel framework that transforms tabular data into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Seungeun Lee , Il-Youp Kwak , Kihwan Lee , Subin Bae , Sangjun Lee , Seulbin Lee , Seungsang Oh

To address the challenges of table structure recognition, we propose a novel Split-Merge-based top-down model optimized for large, densely populated tables. Our approach formulates row and column splitting as sequence labeling tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Qiyu Hou , Jun Wang

Tabular data is a crucial form of information expression, which can organize data in a standard structure for easy information retrieval and comparison. However, in financial industry and many other fields tables are often disclosed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Yiren Li , Zheng Huang , Junchi Yan , Yi Zhou , Fan Ye , Xianhui Liu

Tables on the Web contain a vast amount of knowledge in a structured form. To tap into this valuable resource, we address the problem of table retrieval: answering an information need with a ranked list of tables. We investigate this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog