A table detection method for multipage PDF documents via visual seperators and tabular structures

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 779-783

  Fang, Jing ^a   Gao, Liangcai ^a   Bai, Kun ^b   Qiu, Ruiheng ^c   Tao, Xin ^a   Tang, Zhi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c State Key Lab of Trans Tech   (China)

Author keywords

PDF documents; ruling lines; separators; table detection; table spotting

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; LAYOUT INFORMATION; PDF DOCUMENT; RULING LINES; SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTS; TABLE DETECTION; TABLE SPOTTING; WHITE SPACE;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING;

SEPARATORS;

EID: 82355186295     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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