A method of table detection in metafiles
Alexey Shigarov, Igor Vyacheslavovich Bychkov, Gennady M. Ruzhnikov, Alexei E. Hmelnov · Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis · 2009
A method is proposed for the detection of statistical tables that use metafiles as input data; the latter fact allows one to apply this method to documents of different formats. In this method, the table detection process is viewed as a bottom-up segmentation of a document page, i.e., segmentation from simple elements of a page to more complicated ones. The experimental evaluation of the method shows that it is efficient as applied to a wide class of statistical tables.