Synthetic Data Augmentation for Table Detection: Re-evaluating TableNet's Performance with Automatically Generated Document Images

Document pages captured by smartphones or scanners often contain tables, yet manual extraction is slow and error-prone. We introduce an automated LaTeX-based pipeline that synthesizes realistic two-column pages with visually diverse table layouts and aligned ground-truth masks. The generated corpus augments the real-world Marmot benchmark and enables a systematic resolution study of TableNet. Training TableNet on our synthetic data achieves a pixel-wise XOR error of 4.04% on our synthetic test set with a 256x256 input resolution, and 4.33% with 1024x1024. The best performance on the Marmot benchmark is 9.18% (at 256x256), while cutting manual annotation effort through automation.

@article{sahukara2025_2506.14583,
  title={ Synthetic Data Augmentation for Table Detection: Re-evaluating TableNet's Performance with Automatically Generated Document Images },
  author={ Krishna Sahukara and Zineddine Bettouche and Andreas Fischer },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.14583},
  year={ 2025 }
}