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With collaborators at Adobe Research, my lab published a paper recently showing how to do table reconstruction from infographics (e.g., bar charts) using deep l
by chriskanan 7y ago
With collaborators at Adobe Research, my lab published a paper recently showing how to do table reconstruction from infographics (e.g., bar charts) using deep learning [1].
While it isn't the sexiest project, I've had a number of companies reach out about the project. Human written rule-based approaches are pretty bad at the task, and even humans doing it manually aren't great (likely due to sloppiness).
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01801 https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01801
- jessaustin 7y agoI've found that when PDFs are produced by a single entity for a particular purpose, I can automate this pretty well with a loop and some regex... maybe I've just gotten lucky?