marijanic/table-extraction-scientific-datasets

Benchmarking Table Extraction from Heterogeneous Scientific PDF Documents

Dataset Sources

• Repository: GitLab

Dataset Details

• PubTables

  • Subset of PubTables-Test dataset, enriched with HTML table ground truth
  • /images: 42,942 JPG files; one file for each page image
  • /test: 42,942 XML files containing bounding boxes in PASCAL VOC format
  • /pdfs: 23,567 PDF files from which images are taken from
  • /html: 55,991 HTML files containing extracted tables with in HTML mark-up
  • /word: 46,942 JSON files containing bounding boxes of tokens in images

• Table-arXiv

  • Dataset synthetically generated from LaTeX source files from arXiv preprints for ground truth generation.
  • /images: 36,869 JPG files; one file for each page image
  • /test: 5,327 XML files containing bounding boxes in PASCAL VOC format
  • /pdfs: 2,488 PDF files from which images are taken from
  • /html: 6,441 HTML files containing extracted tables with in HTML mark-up
  • /word: 40,261 JSON files containing bounding boxes of tokens in images

• Table-BRGM

  • Dataset manually annotated, domain-specific and comprises French and English geological reports sourced from a selection of BRGM
  • /images: 2003 JPG files; one file for each page image
  • /test: 251 XML files containing bounding boxes in PASCAL VOC format
  • /pdfs: 26 PDF files from which images are taken from
  • /html: 346 HTML files containing extracted tables with in HTML mark-up
  • /word: 2003 JSON files containing bounding boxes of tokens in images

• ICDAR-2013

  • Dataset manually corrected from the ICDAR-2013 competition, contains European Union and US Government PDF reports.
  • /images: 238 JPG files; one file for each page image
  • /test: 135 XML files containing bounding boxes in PASCAL VOC format
  • /pdfs: 67 PDF files from which images are taken from
  • /html: 163 HTML files containing extracted tables with in HTML mark-up
  • /word: 238 JSON files containing bounding boxes of tokens in images

Dataset Creation

For Table-arXiv, we provide the code to generate de dataset (input images and GT annotations) from .tex source code in Repo. We did not include the dataset used because of the license:
arXiv.org - Non-exclusive license to distribute.

Citation

@misc{soric2025benchmarkingtableextractionheterogeneous, title={Benchmarking Table Extraction from Heterogeneous Scientific Extraction Documents}, author={Marijan Soric and Cécile Gracianne and Ioana Manolescu and Pierre Senellart}, year={2025}, eprint={2511.16134}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.DB}, url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16134}, }