Ingestion planning for complex tables

A computer program product for generating a plan for document processing, the computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer-readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
• instructions to receive a plurality of electronic documents, by a computer using a network;
• instructions to analyze one of the received plurality of electronic documents, using the computer, to identify a table containing tabular data;
• instructions to identify textual data within the identified tabular data, by performing a first natural language search of the identified tabular data;
• instructions to generate textual hints, based on the identified textual data within the identified tabular data;
• instructions to identify references, wherein the references are based on matching textual hints with textual data in non-tabular data of the one analyzed electronic document of the received plurality of electronic documents;
• instructions to calculate a priority score based on a calculated count of references;
• instructions to generate an ordered list of identified references and the associated tabular data, wherein the ordering of the ordered lists is based on the generated list of identified references;
• instructions to generate an ingestion plan, based on generated list of identified references;
• instructions to calculate a percent value based on a count of identified textual data associated with one or more subsets of identified tabular data;
• instructions to generate an ordered list of the one or more subsets of the identified tabular data, based on the calculated priority score associated with each of the one or more subsets of identified tabular data;
• instructions to modify the calculated priority score, based on the calculated percent value;
• instructions to generate a second list of one or more subsets of identified tabular data, based on the modified calculated priority score;
• and
• instructions to generate a modified ingestion plan, based on the generated list of identified references and modified calculated priority score.

A computer system for generating a plan for document processing, the computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer-readable storage media;
• program instructions stored on the computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
• instructions to receive a plurality of electronic documents, by a computer using a network;
• instructions to analyze one of the received plurality of electronic documents, using the computer, to identify a table containing tabular data;
• instructions to identify textual data within the identified tabular data, by performing a first natural language search of the identified tabular data;
• instructions to generate textual hints, based on the identified textual data within the identified tabular data;
• instructions to identify references, wherein the references are based on matching textual hints with textual data in non-tabular data of the one analyzed electronic document of the received plurality of electronic documents;
• instructions to calculate a priority score based on a calculated count of references;
• instructions to generate an ordered list of identified references and the associated tabular data, wherein the ordering of the ordered lists is based on the generated list of identified references;
• instructions to generate an ingestion plan, based on generated list of identified references;
• instructions to calculate a percent value based on a count of identified textual data associated with one or more subsets of identified tabular data;
• instructions to generate an ordered list of the one or more subsets of the identified tabular data, based on the calculated priority score associated with each of the one or more subsets of identified tabular data;
• instructions to generate a second list of one or more subsets of identified tabular data, based on the modified calculated priority score;
• and
• instructions to generate a modified ingestion plan, based on the generated list of identified references and modified calculated priority score.