A Cell-detection-based Table-structure Recognition Method
Manabu Ohta, Ryoya Yamada, Teruhito Kanazawa, Atsuhiro Takasu · 2019
If tables are automatically recognized to extract the numerical values in them, digital documents containing such tables can be augmented with graphs generated using the recognized tables. In this paper, we propose a cell-detection-based table-structure recognition method for such automatic graph generation from tables. In detecting cells in a table, ruled lines are crucial but do not necessarily surround all cells. We therefore propose a method to detect cells by estimating implicit ruled lines, where necessary, to recognize the table structure. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method by experiments using the ICDAR 2013 table competition dataset.