Looking Beyond Text: Extracting Figures, Tables and Captions from Computer Science Papers

@inproceedings{Clark2015LookingBT,
  title={Looking Beyond Text: Extracting Figures, Tables and Captions from Computer Science Papers},
  author={Christopher Andreas Clark and Santosh Kumar Divvala},
  booktitle={AAAI Workshop: Scholarly Big Data},
  year={2015}
}

• Christopher Andreas Clark, Santosh Kumar Divvala
• Published 2015 in AAAI Workshop: Scholarly Big Data

Identifying and extracting figures and tables along with their captions from scholarly articles is important both as a way of providing tools for article summarization, and as part of larger systems that seek to gain deeper, semantic understanding of these articles. While many “off-the-shelf” tools exist that can extract embedded images from these documents, e.g. PDFBox, Poppler, etc., these tools are unable to extract tables, captions, and figures composed of vector graphics. Our proposed… CONTINUE READING

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