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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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Boming Chen , Zining Wang , Zhentao Guo , Jianqiang Liu , Chen Duan , Yu Gu , Kai zhou , Pengfei Yan

Table recognition is using the computer to automatically understand the table, to detect the position of the table from the document or picture, and to correctly extract and identify the internal structure and content of the table. After…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shi Jiyuan , Shi chunqi

Image-based table recognition is a challenging task due to the diversity of table styles and the complexity of table structures. Most of the previous methods focus on a non-end-to-end approach which divides the problem into two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Nam Tuan Ly , Atsuhiro Takasu

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

Tables present summarized and structured information to the reader, which makes table structure extraction an important part of document understanding applications. However, table structure identification is a hard problem not only because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Saqib Ali Khan , Syed Muhammad Daniyal Khalid , Muhammad Ali Shahzad , Faisal Shafait

A correct localisation of tables in a document is instrumental for determining their structure and extracting their contents; therefore, table detection is a key step in table understanding. Nowadays, the most successful methods for table…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Ángela Casado-García , César Domínguez , Jónathan Heras , Eloy Mata , Vico Pascual

Table extraction is an important but still unsolved problem. In this paper, we introduce a flexible and modular table extraction system. We develop two rule-based algorithms that perform the complete table recognition process, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Marcin Namysl , Alexander M. Esser , Sven Behnke , Joachim Köhler

Table Detection has become a fundamental task for visually rich document understanding with the surging number of electronic documents. However, popular public datasets widely used in related studies have inherent limitations, including…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Bin Xiao , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Ala Abu Alkheir

Tabular structures are used to present crucial information in a structured and crisp manner. Detection of such regions is of great importance for proper understanding of a document. Tabular structures can be of various layouts and types.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Soumyadeep Dey , Jayanta Mukhopadhyay , Shamik Sural

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

Extracting table contents from documents such as scientific papers and financial reports and converting them into a format that can be processed by large language models is an important task in knowledge information processing. End-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Takaya Kawakatsu

Recent decades have seen the discovery of numerous complex materials. At the root of the complexity underlying many of these materials lies a large number of possible contending atomic- and larger-scale configurations and the intricate…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-30 P. Ronhovde , S. Chakrabarty , M. Sahu , K. K. Sahu , K. F. Kelton , N. Mauro , Z. Nussinov

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

Extraction of transaction information from bank statements is required to assess one's financial well-being for credit rating and underwriting decisions. Unlike other financial documents such as tax forms or financial statements, extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Abhishek Trivedi , Sourajit Mukherjee , Rajat Kumar Singh , Vani Agarwal , Sriranjani Ramakrishnan , Himanshu S. Bhatt

A table is an object that captures structured and informative content within a document, and recognizing a table in an image is challenging due to the complexity and variety of table layouts. Many previous works typically adopt a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Youngmin Baek , Daehyun Nam , Jaeheung Surh , Seung Shin , Seonghyeon Kim

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

Since a vast number of tables can be easily collected from web pages, spreadsheets, PDFs, and various other document types, a flurry of table pre-training frameworks have been proposed following the success of text and images, and they have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Haoyu Dong , Zhoujun Cheng , Xinyi He , Mengyu Zhou , Anda Zhou , Fan Zhou , Ao Liu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

This study explores three approaches to processing table data in scientific papers to enhance extractive question answering and develop a software tool for the systematic review process. The methods evaluated include: (1) Optical Character…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dongyoun Kim , Hyung-do Choi , Youngsun Jang , John Kim

An automatic table recognition method for interpretation of tabular data in document images majorly involves solving two problems of table detection and table structure recognition. The prior work involved solving both problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Devashish Prasad , Ayan Gadpal , Kshitij Kapadni , Manish Visave , Kavita Sultanpure

Table Detection (TD) is a fundamental task to enable visually rich document understanding, which requires the model to extract information without information loss. However, popular Intersection over Union (IoU) based evaluation metrics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Bin Xiao , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Ala Abu Alkheir