ICDAR 2021 Competition: Detecting Tables Using Image Recognition

Table recognition is a well-studied problem in document analysis, and many academic and commercial approaches have been developed to recognize tables in several document formats, including plain text, scanned page images, and born-digital, object-based formats such as PDF. There are several works that can convert tables in text-based PDF format into structured representations. However, there is limited work on image-based table content recognition. The proposed challenge aims at assessing the ability of state-of-the-art methods to recognize scientific tables in LaTeX format. Our shared task has two subtasks.