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arXiv AI By Guillermo Gil de Avalle, Laura Maruster, Eric Sloot, Christos Emmanouilidis

FlowExtract: Procedural Knowledge Extraction from Maintenance Flowcharts

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FlowExtract is a pipeline designed to convert ISO 5807-standardized maintenance flowcharts into directed graphs. It separates node detection—using YOLOv8 and EasyOCR—from connectivity reconstruction, employing a novel edge detection method that traces arrowheads back to source nodes. Evaluations on industrial troubleshooting guides show high node detection accuracy and significant improvement over vision‑language model baselines for edge extraction.

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