Microsoft Corporation
CONSTRUCTING A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SEMANTIC DOCUMENT

Abstract:

Technologies pertaining to electronic document understanding are described herein. A document is received, wherein the document includes a section of a type. An image of the document is generated, and a candidate region is identified in the image of the document, wherein the candidate region encompasses the section. A label is assigned to the candidate region based upon text of the section, wherein the label identifies the type of the section. An electronic document understanding task is performed based upon the label assigned to the candidate region.