ANALYZING LINES TO DETECT TABLES IN DOCUMENTS

Patent №

US 7,707,488

Granted

2010-04-27

Filed 2006

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

3

nlp · vision · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11350614

Various technologies and techniques detect tables in vector graphics based documents and use them in meaningful ways. The system detects at least one table in a vector graphics based document using a set of rules. The rules include analyzing a set of content representing horizontal and vertical lines to find intersections and identifying table cells based on the intersections. Once identified, the table content is translated into a modified format. The content can be output to a destination application in the modified format that is more suitable for output or use by the destination application.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.90
Vision0.62
Knowledge representation0.05
Planning0.01
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 177350053

Assignors

GURCAN, AHMET, LEESE, ERIC S., BROWN, JEFFREY G., DUNIETZ, JERRY J., MCGATHA, JESSE D., SEDKY, KHALED S., LIU, MING, FOEHR, OLIVER H., LOPEZ, RODRIGO

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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