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Tables are among the most widely used tools for representing structured data in research, business, medicine, and education. Although LLMs demonstrate strong performance in downstream tasks, their efficiency in processing tabular data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ekaterina Borisova , Fabio Barth , Nils Feldhus , Raia Abu Ahmad , Malte Ostendorff , Pedro Ortiz Suarez , Georg Rehm , Sebastian Möller

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

With the rapid development of the internet in the past decade, it has become increasingly important to extract valuable information from vast resources efficiently, which is crucial for establishing a comprehensive digital ecosystem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jinghong Li , Wen Gu , Koichi Ota , Shinobu Hasegawa

Abstract--- Table detection and extraction has been studied in the context of documents like reports, where tables are clearly outlined and stand out from the document structure visually. We study this topic in a rather more challenging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Martin Holeček , Antonín Hoskovec , Petr Baudiš , Pavel Klinger

Building codes contain critical information for ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and informed decision-making in construction and engineering. Automated question answering systems over such codes enable quick and accurate access to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mohammad Aqib , Mohd Hamza , Ying Hei Chui , Qipei Mei

Tables are information-rich structured objects in document images. While significant work has been done in localizing tables as graphic objects in document images, only limited attempts exist on table structure recognition. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Sachin Raja , Ajoy Mondal , C. V. Jawahar

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

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

Tables are widely used in several types of documents since they can bring important information in a structured way. In scientific papers, tables can sum up novel discoveries and summarize experimental results, making the research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Andrea Gemelli , Emanuele Vivoli , Simone Marinai

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

We consider automatically identifying the defined term within a mathematical definition from the text of an academic article. Inspired by the development of transformer-based natural language processing applications, we pose the problem as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Shufan Jiang , Pierre Senellart

Information representation as tables are compact and concise method that eases searching, indexing, and storage requirements. Extracting and cloning tables from parsable documents is easier and widely used, however industry still faces…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Smita Pallavi , Raj Ratn Pranesh , Sumit Kumar

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

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

In this paper, we propose DEXTER, an end to end system to extract information from tables present in medical health documents, such as electronic health records (EHR) and explanation of benefits (EOB). DEXTER consists of four sub-system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Nandhinee PR , Harinath Krishnamoorthy , Koushik Srivatsan , Anil Goyal , Sudarsun Santhiappan

Extracting tables from documents is a crucial task in any document conversion pipeline. Recently, transformer-based models have demonstrated that table-structure can be recognized with impressive accuracy using Image-to-Markup-Sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Maksym Lysak , Ahmed Nassar , Nikolaos Livathinos , Christoph Auer , Peter Staar

Tables in Web documents are pervasive and can be directly used to answer many of the queries searched on the Web, motivating their integration in question answering. Very often information presented in tables is succinct and hard to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Vicky Zayats , Kristina Toutanova , Mari Ostendorf

Relevant information in documents is often summarized in tables, helping the reader to identify useful facts. Most benchmark datasets support either document layout analysis or table understanding, but lack in providing data to apply both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Andrea Gemelli , Emanuele Vivoli , Simone Marinai

Structure information extraction refers to the task of extracting structured text fields from web pages, such as extracting a product offer from a shopping page including product title, description, brand and price. It is an important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Qifan Wang , Yi Fang , Anirudh Ravula , Fuli Feng , Xiaojun Quan , Dongfang Liu

This paper highlights the challenges, current trends, and open issues related to the representation, querying and analytics of content extracted from texts. The internet contains vast text-based information on various subjects, including…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Genoveva Vargas-Solar , Mirian Halfeld Ferrari Alves , Anne-Lyse Minard Forst