US Patent Issued to Canva on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for extracting tables from documents" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,369, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canva Pty Ltd (Surry Hills, Australia).

"Systems and methods for extracting tables from documents" was invented by Velislava Petrova Yanchina (Byron Bay, Australia) and Stephan Schwiebert (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of computer-implemented systems and methods for extracting tables from documents are described. Document layout data is generated based on a plurality of glyphs associated with document lines, comprising data identifying: a plurality of text segments within each line; a plurality of text segment links; a plurality of text blocks of one or more of the text segm...