Abstract: A method for text mining from one or more tables is provided. The method includes the steps of: receiving one or more tables, the tables having one or more table labels, and one or more cells to be processed, transforming each of the cells into cell vector representations; encoding the one or more cell vector representations with a sequential 2D model; obtaining one or more table-level vector representations by summarising the semantics of the cell vector representations by an image classification model; and mapping the output of to an output vector which represents the probability of each of the table labels.