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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5 stories in Table, chart and layout extraction.
Removing headers and footers from documents can boost AI accuracy by 20 percentage points.
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