Is it possible to obtain bounding box information for tables/cells?

[asmith26]

Hi there, I'm following the export_tables.py example, and it's working really well thanks.

To check the export has worked correctly, I'm hoping to create an app to show an image of the cell next the docling export so that I can check the export has worked correctly. To do this, I'm thinking I need the bounding box information of each exported cell so that I can extract and show only one cell at a time.

Is it possible to obtain bounding box information for each cell docling extracts?

Many thanks for any help!

[PeterStaar-IBM]

@asmith26 Yes, I believe so. The json export should have that information (look for table_cells in json-output)

Let us know when you are finished, would love to see what you built!

[asmith26]

Many thanks for the help @PeterStaar-IBM . This seems to achieve my goal:

from docling.datamodel.base_models import InputFormat
from docling.document_converter import DocumentConverter, PdfFormatOption
from docling.datamodel.pipeline_options import PdfPipelineOptions

pipeline_options = PdfPipelineOptions(do_table_structure=True)
pipeline_options.table_structure_options.do_cell_matching = False  # uses text cells predicted from table structure model

doc_converter = DocumentConverter(
    format_options={
        InputFormat.PDF: PdfFormatOption(pipeline_options=pipeline_options)
    }
)
result = doc_converter.convert(PDF_PATH)
result.document.export_to_dict()["tables"][1]

[PeterStaar-IBM]

Super!