Deep Dive of TableNet

Originally published on Towards AI the World's Leading AI and Technology News and Media Company. If you are building an AI-related product or service, we invite you to consider becoming an AI sponsor. At Towards AI, we help scale AI and technology startups. Let us help you unleash your technology to the masses. To obtain data for their own goals, humans rely largely on technology. With the increasing use of mobile phones and scanners to capture and upload documents in this modern age, the necessity for extracting information locked in unstructured document pictures such as shop receipts, insurance claim forms, and bank invoices is growing. One major hurdle to achieving this aim is that these pictures usually contain information in the form of tables, and extracting data from tabular sub-images provides a distinct set of issues.