Patent ID: 6628832
Filing Date: 2003-09-30
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A table recognition apparatus comprising:analysis means for analyzing an area and position of each cell in a table based on a layout state of ruled lines and character strings contained in an image of the table to obtain a table structure; table structure display means for displaying the table structure obtained by said analysis means to indicate the area of every cell and which cell each character string belongs to; instruction means which receives a correction instruction input by a user, wherein the correction instruction is for instructing correction of an area of a cell or which cell a character string belongs to in the table structure displayed by said display means; correction means for correcting the area and position of the cell based on the correction instruction received by said instruction means to obtain a corrected table structure; and generation means for recognizing characters in each cell of the corrected table structure and generating table format data based on a recognition result and the corrected table structure.