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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Douglas Ronald Burdick, San Jose, CA (US);
Wei Cheng, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Alexandre Evfimievski, San Jose, CA (US);
Marina Danilevsky Hailpern, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Shajith Ikbal Mohamed, Chennai, IN;
Prithviraj Sen, San Jose, CA (US);
Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for table recognition in PDF documents are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes discretizing one or more contiguous areas of a PDF document; identifying one or more white-space separator lines within the one or more discretized contiguous areas of the PDF document; detecting one or more candidate table regions within the one or more discretized contiguous areas of the PDF document by clustering the one or more white-space separator lines into one or more grids; and outputting at least one of the candidate table regions as a finalized table in accordance with scores assigned to each of the one or more candidate table regions based on (i) border information and (ii) cell structure information.