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In this paper, we propose a novel technique for automatic table detection in document images. Lines and tables are among the most frequent graphic, non-textual entities in documents and their detection is directly related to the OCR performance as well as to the document layout description. We propose a workflow for table detection that comprises three distinct steps: (i) image pre-processing; (ii) horizontal and vertical line detection and (iii) table detection. The efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated by using a performance evaluation scheme which considers a great variety of documents such as forms, newspapers/magazines, scientific journals, tickets/bank cheques, certificates and handwritten documents.
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Gatos, B., Danatsas, D., Pratikakis, I., Perantonis, S.J. (2005). Automatic Table Detection in Document Images. In: Singh, S., Singh, M., Apte, C., Perner, P. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Data Mining. ICAPR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3686. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551188_67
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