Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sarah Panda

Liang Du

Robin Abraham

Harsh Shrivastava

Arindam Mitra

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for searching and finding one or more tables that contain an answer to a query within documents. The methods and systems receive the query with query terms and search a table index for one or more related tables to the query terms. The methods and systems locate an answer to the query in the cells of the related tables and provide an output with the answer highlighted in the cells of the related tables in response to the query.

Searching and locating answers to natural language questions in tables within documents

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for converting Portable Document Format (PDF) documents to LaTeX files. The methods and systems use machine learning models to identify and extract PDF portions of a PDF document. The methods and systems create a LaTeX file for the PDF document using the PDF portions extracted by the machine learning models. The methods and systems provide an output with the LaTeX file for the PDF document. The LaTeX file is used to perform different actions on the PDF document.

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Sarah Panda