A new open-source tool called PlotPick has been developed to extract structured tabular data from scientific figures using vision-language models (VLMs). This tool aims to automate the slow process of manual data digitization for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Evaluations show that six different VLMs significantly outperform the specialized chart-to-table model DePlot on established benchmarks, particularly on chart types not included in DePlot's training data. AI
IMPACT Automates data extraction from scientific figures, potentially accelerating research synthesis and meta-analyses.
RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new open-source tool and research paper detailing its performance on benchmarks.
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