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2006

Table-processing paradigms: a research survey

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Table-processing paradigms: a research survey
Tables are a ubiquitous form of communication. While everyone seems to know what a table is, a precise, analytical definition of "tabularity" remains elusive because some bureaucratic forms, multicolumn text layouts, and schematic drawings share many characteristics of tables. There are significant differences between typeset tables, electronic files designed for display of tables, and tables in symbolic form intended for information retrieval. Most past research has addressed the extraction of low-level geometric information from raster images of tables scanned from printed documents, although there is growing interest in the processing of tables in electronic form as well. Recent research on table composition and table analysis has improved our understanding of the distinction between the logical and physical structures of tables, and has led to improved formalisms for modeling tables. This review, which is structured in terms of generalized paradigms for table processing, ...
David W. Embley, Matthew Hurst, Daniel P. Lopresti
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Type Journal
Year 2006
Where IJDAR
Authors David W. Embley, Matthew Hurst, Daniel P. Lopresti, George Nagy
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