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Understanding the structure of PDF tables and extracting data from them

Fully explainable vs generative AI algorithms

Session description

Recent advances in generative AI have captured the headlines in recent years and its advantages and limitations are well known among a wide audience. But the more traditional form of AI, the expert system, which enables a fully explainable algorithm and predictable outcome for a given data source, has also quietly been making progress lately.

This presentation will introduce how both approaches can be used to understand the structure of tables in PDF documents, their respective advantages and disadvantages, and will give examples of how these approaches can be used for automated data extraction.

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