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+# Table Transformer (fine-tuned for Table Detection) 
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+Table Transformer (DETR) model trained on PubTables1M. It was introduced in the paper [PubTables-1M: Towards Comprehensive Table Extraction From Unstructured Documents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00061) by Smock et al. and first released in [this repository](https://github.com/microsoft/table-transformer). 
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+Disclaimer: The team releasing Table Transformer did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team.
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+## Model description
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+The Table Transformer is equivalent to DETR, a Transformer-based object detection model. Note that the authors decided to use the "normalize before" setting of DETR, which means that layernorm is applied before self- and cross-attention.
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+## Usage
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+You can use the raw model for detecting tables in documents. See the [documentation](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/table_transformer.html). for more info.
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