arXiv:2609.23679v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Form Field Detection (FFD) is a fundamental component of document understanding systems, enabling applications ranging from large-scale industrial digi...
By Iheb Brini, Omar Moured, Hamza Gbada, Elisa Barney
The paper evaluates eleven vision‑language models (VLMs) for extracting structured fields from business documents, focusing on robustness, cost, and governance rather than just accuracy. Using a held‑out set of 750 synthetic checks, the study finds that fine‑tuning open‑source VLMs on 3,000 samples yields an F1 score above 0.98, surpassing all zero‑shot commercial systems, while GPT‑5 tops the commercial group and Claude Sonnet 4.5 fails on date extraction. The authors also present a practitioner‑oriented selection framework that maps task profiles—such as quality, latency, governance, and volume—to recommended approaches via filtering and total‑cost minimization, demonstrated on a mid‑volume document‑extraction scenario.
By Kushal Patel, Pushkal Shrivastava, Mackenzie Lees, Qirui Lu, Bhargobjyoti Saikia, Liying Li, Junlin Jiang
arXiv:2609.22628v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Every document QA system begins with a choice that is rarely studied on its own: whether to feed the model page images, extracted text, or both. We iso...
By Nikhil Reddy Pottanigari, Sepideh Kharaghani, Saverio Vadacchino, Alejandro Posada, Ying Zhang
arXiv:2608. 07527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-document understanding requires models to find and combine evidence across many pages, layouts, tables, figures, and charts.
By Hongchen Wei, Yuanzhe Wang, Bei Liu, Yifan Yang, Qi Dai, Kai Qiu, Yunsheng Li, Dongdong Chen, Chong Luo, Zhenzhong Chen, Baining Guo
We present HunyuanOCR-1. 5, a lightweight end-to-end OCR-specialized vision-language model.
arXiv:2502. 20295v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Handwriting text recognition (HTR) remains a challenging task.
By Benjamin Gutteridge, Matthew Thomas Jackson, Toni Kukurin, Xiaowen Dong
arXiv:2607. 16203v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document parsing is a foundational step for document understanding tasks such as visual question answering and key information extraction, as it transforms unstructured scanned images into structured representations by extracting textual, visual, and layout information.
By Zihan Xu, Puzhen Wu, Lawrence Chun Man Lau, Wei Liu, Sirui Li, Yifan Peng, Yihao Ding
HunyuanOCR-1.5 is a lightweight, end‑to‑end OCR‑specialized vision‑language model that unifies document parsing, text spotting, information extraction, text‑image translation, and multi‑image document understanding. It builds on the HunyuanOCR‑1.0 architecture, improving efficiency with DFlash‑based OCR decoding for faster inference (6.37× Transformer speedup, 2.14× under vLLM) and enhancing capability through an Agentic Data Flow system that autonomously constructs high‑quality training data for long‑tail OCR tasks. The model achieves top‑tier performance on OmniDocBench v1.6 and sets new milestones in ancient‑script OCR, chart/table parsing, multilingual parsing, and hallucination evaluation, while remaining lightweight for deployment.
By Gengluo Li, Xingyu Wan, Shangpin Peng, Weinong Wang, Hao Feng, Yongkun Du, Binghong Wu, Zheng Ruan, Zhiqiong Lu, Liang Wu, Pengyuan Lyu, Huawen Shen, Zibin Lin, Shijing Hu, Jieneng Yang, Hongbing Wen, Guanghua Yu, Hong Liu, Bochao Wang, Can Ma, Han Hu, Chengquan Zhang, Yu Zhou
arXiv:2609.01575v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Extracting structured fields from hundreds of millions of documents annually remains costly in regulated industries: bespoke OCR cascades cover only a...
By Maksim Evdokimov, Matvey Ivanov, Dmitrii Tsiupin, Olga Tsymboi, Anatolii Potapov, Aleksandr Ivanov
The ICDAR2026 Competition on Multimodal Reasoning over Documents in Multiple Domains introduced a new Visual Question Answering benchmark that tests reasoning over documents from eight distinct domains such as business reports, scientific papers, and engineering drawings. Twenty valid submissions from eight teams were evaluated, featuring approaches ranging from zero‑shot vision‑language models to multi‑agent ensembles and fine‑tuned multimodal systems. Results indicate that the most effective systems employ structured evidence extraction, retrieval, verification, and orchestration across multiple components rather than single‑pass prompting.
By Artemis Llabr\'es, Marc Serra Ortega, Tom\`as Ockier, Samuel Ortega Cuadra, Amritpal Singh, Christos Georgakilas, Andrey Barsky, Ernest Valveny, Dimosthenis Karatzas
arXiv:2604. 13731v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-page Document Visual Question Answering requires reasoning over semantics, layouts, and visual elements in long, visually dense documents.
By Yuanlei Zheng, Pei Fu, Hang Li, Ziyang Wang, Yuyi Zhang, Wenyu Ruan, Xiaojin Zhang, Zhongyu Wei, Zhenbo Luo, Jian Luan, Wei Chen, Xiang Bai
arXiv:2606. 01393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document parsing and recognition are fundamental capabilities for vision-language models (VLMs) and document processing systems.
By Minglai Yang, Xinyan Velocity Yu, Pengyuan Li, Xinyu Guo, Zhenting Qi, Konwoo Kim, Longtian Ye, Xiaolong Luo, Jinhe Bi, Henry Zhang, Haris Riaz, Xuan Zhang, Yunze Xiao, Bangya Liu, Tom Tang, Yunfei Zhao, Qunshu Lin, Zihan Wang, Minghao Liu, Michael Lingzhi Li, Yilun Du, Jesse Thomason, Rogerio Feris, Alex Pentland, Zexue He