Document Layout Analysis: How OCR Understands Pages
Before OCR can read text, it must understand page structure. Document layout analysis detects regions, determines reading order, and separates text from tables and figures.
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Before OCR can read text, it must understand page structure. Document layout analysis detects regions, determines reading order, and separates text from tables and figures.
Tables encode structured information that standard OCR misses. Extracting tabular data from scanned documents requires detecting table boundaries, recognizing row and column structure, and mapping cells to their correct positions.
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