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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

As global trends are shifting towards data-driven industries, the demand for automated algorithms that can convert digital images of scanned documents into machine readable information is rapidly growing. Besides the opportunity of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Pascal Fischer , Alen Smajic , Alexander Mehler , Giuseppe Abrami

Tables organize valuable content in a concise and compact representation. This content is extremely valuable for systems such as search engines, Knowledge Graph's, etc, since they enhance their predictive capabilities. Unfortunately, tables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ahmed Nassar , Nikolaos Livathinos , Maksym Lysak , Peter Staar

Understanding visually-rich business documents to extract structured data and automate business workflows has been receiving attention both in academia and industry. Although recent multi-modal language models have achieved impressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zilong Wang , Yichao Zhou , Wei Wei , Chen-Yu Lee , Sandeep Tata

Tables, typically two-dimensional and structured to store large amounts of data, are essential in daily activities like database queries, spreadsheet manipulations, web table question answering, and image table information extraction.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Weizheng Lu , Jing Zhang , Ju Fan , Zihao Fu , Yueguo Chen , Xiaoyong Du

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

Tables contain factual and quantitative data accompanied by various structures and contents that pose challenges for machine comprehension. Previous methods generally design task-specific architectures and objectives for individual tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Weichao Zhao , Hao Feng , Qi Liu , Jingqun Tang , Shu Wei , Binghong Wu , Lei Liao , Yongjie Ye , Hao Liu , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Can Huang

We present ModelTables, a benchmark of tables in Model Lakes that captures the structured semantics of performance and configuration tables often overlooked by text only retrieval. The corpus is built from Hugging Face model cards, GitHub…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhengyuan Dong , Victor Zhong , Renée J. Miller

Document-to-table (Doc2Table) extraction derives structured tables from unstructured documents under a target schema, enabling reliable and verifiable SQL-based data analytics. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuxiang Guo , Zhuoran Du , Nan Tang , Kezheng Tang , Congcong Ge , Yunjun Gao

Recent work in vision-and-language demonstrates that large-scale pretraining can learn generalizable models that are efficiently transferable to downstream tasks. While this may improve dataset-scale aggregate metrics, analyzing performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Eric Slyman , Minsuk Kahng , Stefan Lee

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in interpreting visual layouts and text. However, a significant challenge remains in their ability to interpret robustly and reason over multi-tabular data presented as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Anshul Singh , Chris Biemann , Jan Strich

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

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

Automatic extraction of procedural graphs from documents creates a low-cost way for users to easily understand a complex procedure by skimming visual graphs. Despite the progress in recent studies, it remains unanswered: whether the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Weihong Du , Wenrui Liao , Hongru Liang , Wenqiang Lei

We introduce a new table detection and structure recognition approach named RobusTabNet to detect the boundaries of tables and reconstruct the cellular structure of each table from heterogeneous document images. For table detection, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Chixiang Ma , Weihong Lin , Lei Sun , Qiang Huo

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

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

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

Charts effectively convey quantitative information, but the underlying data are often locked in image form, hindering reuse and analysis. Manually digitizing charts is time-consuming and error-prone, motivating automatic chart-to-table…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Thomas Berkane , Qianyi Wang , Maimuna S. Majumder

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…

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