Ability to recognize headings

[davidkong0987]

I was wondering if there is a way for Camelot to recognize when there is a heading. A few ways this can be done is recognizing when a font size (or even font style!) is different and tagging it (which the software seems to be able to do, at least for super/subscripts), or by putting in empty rows in the table output so that the spacing of the original document is preserved.

[vinayak-mehta]

Since table headers would mostly remain the same for same type of tables in a PDF, you can add a post-extraction step where you can remove them by explicitly specifying them in your code.

This would be a nice feature to have but I'm afraid the font size/style and adding spaces implementations would be highly heuristical and won't be able to generalize over a large set of different table types. Maybe there are better ways to do this, I remember reading about this in a paper, I'll try to find it. If you come across any literature or other ideas, do comment!

[davidkong0987]

Got it I understand that there would need to be a post-extraction step, but perhaps that can be aided by something that shows when the font size and/or line spacing is different than say the mode, similar to what is done with subscripts/superscripts. Sent via Superhuman ( https://sprh.mn/?vip=davidxmkong@gmail.com )

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On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 6:13 AM, Vinayak Mehta < ***@***.*** > wrote: Since table headers would mostly remain the same for same type of tables in a PDF, you can add a post-extraction step where you can remove them by explicitly specifying them in your code. This would be a nice feature to have but I'm afraid the font size/style implementation would be highly heuristical and won't be able to generalize over a large of different table types. Maybe there are better ways to do this, I remember reading about this in a paper, I'll try to find it. If you come across any literature or other ideas, do comment! — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub ( #247 (comment) ) , or mute the thread ( https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/An8Sgf-99oZuv4Fz5Uz6OLgDHQa0UsEiks5vBc7BgaJpZM4Z2LyT ).

[vinayak-mehta]

Closed in favor of camelot-dev/camelot#7.