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A Clustering Approach Combining Lines and Text Detection for Table Extraction

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Table detection is a crucial step in several document analysis applications as tables are used to present essential information to the reader in a structured manner. In companies that deal with a large amount of data, administrative documents must be processed with reasonable accuracy, and the detection and interpretation of tables are crucial. Table recognition has gained interest in document image analysis, particularly in unconstrained formats (absence of rule lines, unknown information of rows and columns). This problem is challenging due to the variety of table layouts, encoding techniques, and the similarity of tabular regions with non-tabular document elements. In this, paper, we make use of the location, context, and content type, thus it is purely a structure perception approach, not dependent on the language and the quality of the text reading. We evaluate our model on invoice-like documents and the proposed method showed good results for the task of table extraction.

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Boutalbi, K. et al. (2023). A Clustering Approach Combining Lines and Text Detection for Table Extraction. In: Coustaty, M., Fornés, A. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2023 Workshops. ICDAR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41501-2_10

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