[chriskanan]

With collaborators at Adobe Research, my lab published a paper recently showing how to do table reconstruction from infographics (e.g., bar charts) using deep learning [1].

While it isn't the sexiest project, I've had a number of companies reach out about the project. Human written rule-based approaches are pretty bad at the task, and even humans doing it manually aren't great (likely due to sloppiness).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01801

[jessaustin]

I've found that when PDFs are produced by a single entity for a particular purpose, I can automate this pretty well with a loop and some regex... maybe I've just gotten lucky?