Adobe Inc.
Table layout determination using a machine learning system

Abstract:

A table layout determination system implemented on a computing device obtains an image of a table having multiple cells. The table layout determination system includes a row prediction machine learning system that generates, for each of multiple rows of pixels in the image of the table, a probability of the row being a row separator, and a column prediction machine learning system generates, for each of multiple columns of pixels in the image of the table, a probability of the column being a column separator. An inference system uses these probabilities of the rows being row separators and the columns being column separators to identify the row separators and column separators for the table. These row separators and column separators are the layout of the table.