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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

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

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

Transformers have shown impressive results in tabular data generation. However, they lack domain-specific inductive biases which are critical for preserving the intrinsic characteristics of tabular data. They also suffer from poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jiayu Li , Bingyin Zhao , Zilong Zhao , Uzair Javaid , Kevin Yee , Biplab Sikdar

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

All tables can be represented as grids. Based on this observation, we propose GridFormer, a novel approach for interpreting unconstrained table structures by predicting the vertex and edge of a grid. First, we propose a flexible table…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Pengyuan Lyu , Weihong Ma , Hongyi Wang , Yuechen Yu , Chengquan Zhang , Kun Yao , Yang Xue , Jingdong Wang

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

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

Table structure recognition (TSR) aims at extracting tables in images into machine-understandable formats. Recent methods solve this problem by predicting the adjacency relations of detected cell boxes, or learning to generate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Hangdi Xing , Feiyu Gao , Rujiao Long , Jiajun Bu , Qi Zheng , Liangcheng Li , Cong Yao , Zhi Yu

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

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

Tabular data (or tables) are the most widely used data format in machine learning (ML). However, ML models often assume the table structure keeps fixed in training and testing. Before ML modeling, heavy data cleaning is required to merge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zifeng Wang , Jimeng Sun

Recently, table structure recognition has achieved impressive progress with the help of deep graph models. Most of them exploit single visual cues of tabular elements or simply combine visual cues with other modalities via early fusion to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Hao Liu , Xin Li , Bing Liu , Deqiang Jiang , Yinsong Liu , Bo Ren

We present TableSeq, an image-only, end-to-end framework for joint table structure recognition, content recognition, and cell localization. The model formulates these tasks as a single sequence-generation problem: one decoder produces an…

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

Although Transformers-based architectures excel at processing textual information, their naive adaptation for tabular data often involves flattening the table structure. This simplification can lead to the loss of essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Raphaël Mouravieff , Benjamin Piwowarski , Sylvain Lamprier

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

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

Important information that relates to a specific topic in a document is often organized in tabular format to assist readers with information retrieval and comparison, which may be difficult to provide in natural language. However, tabular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Xu Zhong , Elaheh ShafieiBavani , Antonio Jimeno Yepes

We present a novel deep-learning-based method to cluster words in documents which we apply to detect and recognize tables given the OCR output. We interpret table structure bottom-up as a graph of relations between pairs of words (belonging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Marek Polewczyk , Marco Spinaci

Understanding tables is an important aspect of natural language understanding. Existing models for table understanding require linearization of the table structure, where row or column order is encoded as an unwanted bias. Such spurious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Jingfeng Yang , Aditya Gupta , Shyam Upadhyay , Luheng He , Rahul Goel , Shachi Paul