A methodology for evaluating algorithms for table understanding in PDF documents

DocEng 2012 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 45-48

  Göbel, Max ^a   Hassan, Tamir ^a   Oro, Ermelinda ^b   Orsi, Giorgio ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Document understanding; Ground truth dataset; Metrics; Performance evaluation; Table processing

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT UNDERSTANDING; METRICS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84867441274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2361354.2361365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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