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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jean-François Buisson, Geneva, CH;
Keith D. Cramer, Pine Island, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and apparatus are provided for processing tables embedded within documents wherein a first table header is detected by using semantic groupings of table header terms to identify a minimum number of table header terms in a scanned line of an text document; a potential data zone is extracted by applying white space correlation analysis to a portion of the text document that is adjacent to the first table header; one or more data zone columns from the potential data zone are grouped and aligned with a corresponding header column in the first table header to form a candidate table; data cleansing is performed on the candidate table; and then one or more columns of the candidate table are evaluated using natural language processing to apply a specified table analysis.