bug/error on HTML table generation

[pawel-kmiecik]

When processing a PDF file with hi_res in unstructured-api, an error occurs on HTML table generation (from unstructured-inferece):

2024-07-24T08:49:18.887448624Z   File "/home/notebook-user/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/unstructured/partition/pdf_image/ocr.py", line 284, in supplement_element_with_table_extraction
2024-07-24T08:49:18.887488006Z     text_as_html = "" if tatr_cells == "" else cells_to_html(tatr_cells)
2024-07-24T08:49:18.887503751Z                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2024-07-24T08:49:18.887511928Z   File "/home/notebook-user/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/unstructured_inference/models/tables.py", line 704, in cells_to_html
2024-07-24T08:49:18.887519618Z     cells = sorted(fill_cells(cells), key=lambda k: (min(k["row_nums"]), min(k["column_nums"])))
2024-07-24T08:49:18.887527508Z                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2024-07-24T08:49:18.887534601Z   File "/home/notebook-user/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/unstructured_inference/models/tables.py", line 667, in fill_cells
2024-07-24T08:49:18.887542331Z     table_rows_no = max({row for cell in cells for row in cell["row_nums"]})
2024-07-24T08:49:18.887549813Z                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2024-07-24T08:49:18.887557089Z ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence

Environment:

Unstructured API 0.0.72 deployed in remote machine
Local deployment lib versions
unstructured==0.14.6
unstructured-client==0.18.0
OS
Ubunut 22.04.02 LTS

[christinestraub]

@pawel-kmiecik The issue you're encountering appears to be related to the following:

• ValueError when an empty table is detected #357
• ValueError in modela/tables.py #358
• bug/partition-pdf-with-infer_table_structure unstructured#3252

This problem has been addressed in PR #359. To resolve it, please update your unstructured version to at least 0.14.8 or the latest available version.