Towards Creating Business Process Models from Images

Business process modeling is an integral task needed for efficient running of business operations. Often process models remain buried in unstructured documents as images or screenshots. Such embedded process model images may become quickly obsolete as the underlying business process evolves. Thus, there is value in digitizing the unstructured images. We propose a novel automated solution to transform a process model image into the standard Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) format. Our deep-learning based approach performs well in practice achieving good precision and recall.