Struct TableFinder 

pub struct TableFinder { /* private fields */ }

Orchestrator for the table detection pipeline.

Takes edges (and optionally words/chars) and settings, then runs the appropriate detection strategy to produce tables.

Implementations

impl TableFinder

pub fn new(edges: Vec<Edge>, settings: TableSettings) -> Self

Create a new TableFinder with the given edges and settings.

pub fn new_with_words( edges: Vec<Edge>, words: Vec<Word>, settings: TableSettings, ) -> Self

Create a new TableFinder with edges, words, and settings.

The words are used by the Stream strategy to generate synthetic edges from text alignment patterns.

pub fn settings(&self) -> &TableSettings

Get a reference to the settings.

pub fn edges(&self) -> &[Edge]

Get a reference to the edges.

pub fn find_tables(&self) -> Vec<Table>

Run the table detection pipeline and return detected tables.

Pipeline: filter edges → snap → join → intersections → cells → tables.

For Lattice strategy, all edges (lines + rect edges) are used. For LatticeStrict strategy, only line-sourced edges are used (no rect edges). For Stream strategy, synthetic edges are generated from word alignment patterns. For Explicit strategy, edges from user-provided coordinates are used, combined with any detected edges passed to the finder (mixing).

pub fn find_tables_debug(&self) -> TableFinderDebug

Run the table detection pipeline and return intermediate results for debugging.

Returns a TableFinderDebug containing the processed edges, intersections, cells, and tables from each pipeline stage. This is used by the visual debugging system to render the table detection process.