TDEM: Table Data Extraction Model Based on Cell Segmentation

Abstract

To accurately extract tabular data, we propose a novel cell-based tabular data extraction model (TDEM). The key of TDEM is to utilize grayscale projection of row separation lines, coupled with table masks and column masks generated by the VGG-19 neural network, to segment each individual cell from the input image of the table. In this way, the text content of the table is extracted from a specific single cell, which greatly improves the accuracy of table recognition.