Improving the table boundary detection in PDFs by fixing the sequence error of the sparse lines

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1006-1010

  Liu, Ying ^a   Bai, Kun ^a   Mitra, Prasenjit ^a   Giles, C Lee ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY DETECTION; COMMON PROBLEMS; DATA SEARCHES; DOCUMENT STORAGE; DOCUMENT STRUCTURE; INFORMATION SOURCES; PDF DOCUMENT; RAPID GROWTH; TEXT EXTRACTION;

ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MARKUP LANGUAGES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 71249084337     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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