A Method of Table Detection in Metafiles

摘要

A method is proposed for the detection of statistical tables that use metafiles as input data; the lat-ter fact allows one to apply this method to documents of different formats. In this method, the table detectionprocess is viewed as a bottom-up segmentation of a document page, i.e., segmentation from simple elementsof a page to more complicated ones. The experimental evaluation of the method shows that it is efficient asapplied to a wide class of statistical tables.