TableVision: Recovering Verified Structure from Historical Tables

Gaps, skips, and mistakes are the normal state of a historical register: rows go missing, tables cross page breaks, columns slip under wrong names, and column sums disagree with the corresponding row entries. Readers read digits correctly but lose the table structure. On seven clean panels of election returns, the best open-source reader reproduces 99.0\% of the digits but files only 83.7\% of the figures in the correct cells and gets 11 of 30 columns correct. TableVision treats table structure recovery as the problem. On three degraded 1888 pages, Amazon Textract files only 1 of 1494 figures correctly; TableVision correctly files 99.2\%, and all 51 columns its exact-total check releases ...

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