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Handling tree-structured text: parsing directory pages

2021-11-24 07:58:47
Sarang Shrivastava, Afreen Shaikh, Shivani Shrivastava, Chung Ming Ho, Pradeep Reddy, Vijay Saraswat

Abstract

The determination of the reading sequence of text is fundamental to document understanding. This problem is easily solved in pages where the text is organized into a sequence of lines and vertical alignment runs the height of the page (producing multiple columns which can be read from left to right). We present a situation -- the directory page parsing problem -- where information is presented on the page in an irregular, visually-organized, two-dimensional format. Directory pages are fairly common in financial prospectuses and carry information about organizations, their addresses and relationships that is key to business tasks in client onboarding. Interestingly, directory pages sometimes have hierarchical structure, motivating the need to generalize the reading sequence to a reading tree. We present solutions to the problem of identifying directory pages and constructing the reading tree, using (learnt) classifiers for text segments and a bottom-up (right to left, bottom-to-top) traversal of segments. The solution is a key part of a production service supporting automatic extraction of organization, address and relationship information from client onboarding documents.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12317

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.12317.pdf


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