Header and Footer Removal in Document Preprocessing
Removing headers and footers from documents can boost AI accuracy by 20 percentage points.
Margaret Solloway
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Margaret Solloway
Margaret Solloway covers table, chart and layout extraction, document parsing and ocr accuracy and features for The Parse Layer.
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Table Structure Recognition Models Compared on Spanning Cells
Metric choice and dataset quality reveal which models truly handle merged cells best.
Margaret Solloway
Document Image Resolution Thresholds for Reliable OCR
Set your scanner to 300 DPI minimum, or OCR will fail no matter how smart your software is.
Margaret Solloway
Multi-Language OCR for Mixed-Script Enterprise Documents
Enterprise OCR must handle bidirectional text and mixed scripts in the extraction layer itself.
Margaret Solloway
Handwritten Text Recognition Accuracy in Scanned Forms
Document quality matters more than model selection for improving real-world handwriting recognition.
Margaret Solloway
OCR Post-Correction With Language Models in Document Pipelines
Language models catch OCR errors that rule-based tools miss, but they introduce new failure modes.
Margaret Solloway
Extracting tables that span pages, merge cells, and hide their totals in footnotes
Most extraction tools fail silently on complex tables until reconciliation reveals the damage.
Margaret Solloway