title: Detect table with OpenCV
body: <p>I often work with scanned papers. The papers contain tables (similar to Excel tables) which I need to type into the computer manually. To make the task worse the tables can be of different number of columns. Manually entering them into Excel is mundane to say the least.</p>
  
  <p>I thought I can save myself a week of work if I can put a program to OCR it. Would it be possible to detect headers text areas with the OpenCV and OCR the text behind the detected image coordinates. </p>
  
  <p>Can I achieve this with the help of OpenCV or do I need entirely different approach?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: Example table is really just a standard table similar to what you can see in Excel and other spread-sheet applications, see below.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XuDp.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XuDp.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>