Automating table extraction (TE) from business documents is critical for industrial workflows but remains challenging due to sparse annotations and error-prone multi-stage pipelines. While semi-supervised learning (SSL) can leverage unlabeled data, existing methods rely on confidence scores that poorly reflect extraction quality. We propose QUEST, a Quality-aware Semi-supervised Table extraction framework designed for Business documents. QUEST introduces a novel quality assessment model that evaluates structural and contextual features of extracted tables, trained to predict F1 scores instead of relying on confidence metrics. This quality-aware approach guides pseudo-label selection during iterative SSL training, while diversity measures (DPP, Vendi score, IntDiv) mitigate confirmation bias. Experiments on a proprietary business dataset (1k annotated + 10k unannotated documents) show QUEST improves F1 from 64% to 74% and reduces empty predictions by 45% (12% to 6.5%). On the DocILE benchmark (600 annotated + 20k unannotated documents), QUEST achieves a 50% F1 score (up from 42%) and reduces empty predictions by 19% (27% to 22%). The framework’s interpretable quality assessments and robustness to annotation scarcity make it particularly suited for business documents, where structural consistency and data completeness are paramount.

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QUEST: Quality-Aware Semi-supervised Table Extraction for Business Documents

  • Eliott Thomas,
  • Mickaël Coustaty,
  • Aurélie Joseph,
  • Gaspar Deloin,
  • Elodie Carel,
  • Vincent Poulain D’andecy,
  • Jean-Marc Ogier

摘要

Automating table extraction (TE) from business documents is critical for industrial workflows but remains challenging due to sparse annotations and error-prone multi-stage pipelines. While semi-supervised learning (SSL) can leverage unlabeled data, existing methods rely on confidence scores that poorly reflect extraction quality. We propose QUEST, a Quality-aware Semi-supervised Table extraction framework designed for Business documents. QUEST introduces a novel quality assessment model that evaluates structural and contextual features of extracted tables, trained to predict F1 scores instead of relying on confidence metrics. This quality-aware approach guides pseudo-label selection during iterative SSL training, while diversity measures (DPP, Vendi score, IntDiv) mitigate confirmation bias. Experiments on a proprietary business dataset (1k annotated + 10k unannotated documents) show QUEST improves F1 from 64% to 74% and reduces empty predictions by 45% (12% to 6.5%). On the DocILE benchmark (600 annotated + 20k unannotated documents), QUEST achieves a 50% F1 score (up from 42%) and reduces empty predictions by 19% (27% to 22%). The framework’s interpretable quality assessments and robustness to annotation scarcity make it particularly suited for business documents, where structural consistency and data completeness are paramount.