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Our work addresses the challenges of understanding tables. Existing methods often struggle with the unpredictable nature of table content, leading to a reliance on preprocessing and keyword matching. They also face limitations due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Thi-Nhung Nguyen , Hoang Ngo , Dinh Phung , Thuy-Trang Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen

Tables are an important form of structured data for both human and machine readers alike, providing answers to questions that cannot, or cannot easily, be found in texts. Recent work has designed special models and training paradigms for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Zhiruo Wang , Zhengbao Jiang , Eric Nyberg , Graham Neubig

We present TableBank, a new image-based table detection and recognition dataset built with novel weak supervision from Word and Latex documents on the internet. Existing research for image-based table detection and recognition usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Minghao Li , Lei Cui , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou , Zhoujun Li

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

Spreadsheet table detection is the task of detecting all tables on a given sheet and locating their respective ranges. Automatic table detection is a key enabling technique and an initial step in spreadsheet data intelligence. However, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Haoyu Dong , Shijie Liu , Shi Han , Zhouyu Fu , Dongmei Zhang

Tables condense key transactional and administrative information into compact layouts, but practical extraction requires more than text recognition: systems must also recover structure (rows, columns, merged cells, headers) and interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Laziz Hamdi , Amine Tamasna , Thierry Paquet

In the digital era, table structure recognition technology is a critical tool for processing and analyzing large volumes of tabular data. Previous methods primarily focus on visual aspects of table structure recovery but often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zhenrong Zhang , Shuhang Liu , Pengfei Hu , Jiefeng Ma , Jun Du , Jianshu Zhang , Yu Hu

Large pre-trained language models achieve state-of-the-art results when fine-tuned on downstream NLP tasks. However, they almost exclusively focus on text-only representation, while neglecting cell-level layout information that is important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Chenliang Li , Bin Bi , Ming Yan , Wei Wang , Songfang Huang , Fei Huang , Luo Si

Extracting information from unstructured text documents is a demanding task, since these documents can have a broad variety of different layouts and a non-trivial reading order, like it is the case for multi-column documents or nested…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Matthias Engelbach , Dennis Klau , Jens Drawehn , Maximilien Kintz

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

This Paper summarises the operation of software developed for the analysis of workbook structure. This comprises: the identification of layout in terms of filled areas formed into "Stripes", the identification of all the Formula…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Bill Bekenn , Ray Hooper

Obtaining annotated table structure data for complex tables is a challenging task due to the inherent diversity and complexity of real-world document layouts. The scarcity of publicly available datasets with comprehensive annotations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Syed Jawwad Haider Hamdani , Saifullah Saifullah , Stefan Agne , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

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

Table structure recognition aims to parse tables in unstructured data into machine-understandable formats. Recent methods address this problem through a two-stage process or optimized one-stage approaches. However, these methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Anyi Xiao , Cihui Yang

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

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

In many industries, as well as in academic research, information is primarily transmitted in the form of unstructured documents (this article, for example). Hierarchically-related data is rendered as tables, and extracting information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Nataliya Le Vine , Claus Horn , Matthew Zeigenfuse , Mark Rowan

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

Table structure recognition is a challenging task due to the various structures and complicated cell spanning relations. Previous methods handled the problem starting from elements in different granularities (rows/columns, text regions),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Liang Qiao , Zaisheng Li , Zhanzhan Cheng , Peng Zhang , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Wenqi Ren , Wenming Tan , Fei Wu

Translating renderings (e. g. PDFs, scans) into hierarchical document structures is extensively demanded in the daily routines of many real-world applications. However, a holistic, principled approach to inferring the complete hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Johannes Rausch , Octavio Martinez , Fabian Bissig , Ce Zhang , Stefan Feuerriegel