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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

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

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 2022-08-10 Weihong Lin , Zheng Sun , Chixiang Ma , Mingze Li , Jiawei Wang , Lei Sun , Qiang Huo

With the widespread use of mobile phones and scanners to photograph and upload documents, the need for extracting the information trapped in unstructured document images such as retail receipts, insurance claim forms and financial invoices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Shubham Paliwal , Vishwanath D , Rohit Rahul , Monika Sharma , Lovekesh Vig

Table structure recognition (TSR) requires both table-level coherence (row/column counts, headers, spanning cells) and precise separator localization. We introduce FastTab, a grid-centric TSR model that avoids autoregressive HTML decoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Laziz Hamdi , Amine Tamasna , Pascal Boisson , Thierry Paquet

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

Extracting tables from documents is a critical task across various industries, especially on business documents like invoices and reports. Existing systems based on DEtection TRansformer (DETR) such as TAble TRansformer (TATR), offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Eliott Thomas , Mickael Coustaty , Aurelie Joseph , Gaspar Deloin , Elodie Carel , Vincent Poulain D'Andecy , Jean-Marc Ogier

Automatic table detection in PDF documents has achieved a great success but tabular data extraction are still challenging due to the integrity and noise issues in detected table areas. The accurate data extraction is extremely crucial in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Siwen Luo , Mengting Wu , Yiwen Gong , Wanying Zhou , Josiah Poon

We present an end-to-end trainable approach for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on printed documents. Specifically, we propose a model that predicts a) a two-dimensional character grid (\emph{chargrid}) representation of a document…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Christian Reisswig , Anoop R Katti , Marco Spinaci , Johannes Höhne

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 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

Document parsing is a core task in document intelligence, supporting applications such as information extraction, retrieval-augmented generation, and automated document analysis. However, real-world documents often feature complex layouts…

Table Structure Recognition (TSR) requires the logical reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) to handle complex table layouts, but current datasets are limited in scale and quality, hindering effective use of this reasoning…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ruilin Zhang , Kai Yang

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

Tables are everywhere, from scientific journals, papers, websites, and newspapers all the way to items we buy at the supermarket. Detecting them is thus of utmost importance to automatically understanding the content of a document. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Mahmoud Kasem , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Alexander Berendeyev , Ebrahem Elkady , Mahmoud Abdalla , Mohamed Mahmoud , Mohamed Hamada , Daniyar Nurseitov , Islam Taj-Eddin

A table arranging data in rows and columns is a very effective data structure, which has been widely used in business and scientific research. Considering large-scale tabular data in online and offline documents, automatic table recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Wenyuan Xue , Baosheng Yu , Wen Wang , Dacheng Tao , Qingyong Li

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

Automated document processing for tabular information extraction is highly desired in many organizations, from industry to government. Prior works have addressed this problem under table detection and table structure detection tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Yakup Akkaya , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Shahzad Khan

Table recognition (TR) is one of the research hotspots in pattern recognition, which aims to extract information from tables in an image. Common table recognition tasks include table detection (TD), table structure recognition (TSR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Fan Yang , Lei Hu , Xinwu Liu , Shuangping Huang , Zhenghui Gu

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