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I use OCR function (DOCUMENT_TEXT_DETECTION) of Google Vision API to process different medical documents. There are some tables in them. According to Google's documentation, there is a special BlockType for tables.

However, I can't get this sort of block in a response from Google even in a case when existence of a table is obvious. What is the reason of such behavior? Do I need to use special options or methods to detect tables using Google Vision API? An example of a table I tried to process:

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I found out your question about tables in Google Vision API in Google Forum. The short answer: tables (as blockType) aren't supported now (10/21/2021) but there is a feature request with minor priority: Google Vision API Issue Tracker

I would recommend you to use Document AI: Document AI. I checked and it returned meta info about tables.

Ray
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