arXiv AI By Pius Horn, Janis Keuper

Beyond String Matching: Semantic Evaluation of PDF Table Extraction

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arXiv:2603. 18652v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliably extracting tables from PDFs is essential for large-scale scientific data mining and knowledge base construction, yet existing evaluation approaches rely on rule-based metrics that fail to capture semantic equivalence of table content.

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