arXiv:2605.19309v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Document Layout Analysis (DLA) pipelines provide structured page representations for retrieval-augmented generation, long-document question answeri...
By Yue Chen, Yihao Wang, Ziyi Tang, Yongsen Zheng, Keze Wang
The paper introduces the Structural Semantic Unit (SSU) and the Coverage, Overlap, Trespass, and Excess (COTe) score as a new framework for evaluating Document Layout Analysis (DLA) models. Unlike traditional metrics such as IoU, F1, or mAP, which are tailored to 2D projections of 3D space, COTe focuses on the semantic structure of printed media and is decomposable to reveal specific failure modes like breaching semantic boundaries or redundant parsing. Experiments on five common DLA models across three datasets show that COTe is more informative and robust—especially under granularity mismatches—than F1, and the authors provide an SSU-labelled dataset and a Python library to facilitate adoption.
By Jonathan Bourne, Mwiza Simbeye, Ishtar Govia
arXiv:2607. 10400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on visual document understanding benchmarks such as DocVQA, ChartQA, and MMLongBench-Doc.
By Abhigya Verma, Khyati Mahajan, Amit Kumar Saha, Shruthan Radhakrishna, Sagar Davasam, Vikas Yadav, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba
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
TeleOCR is a unified framework for document parsing that tackles challenges in both decoupled and end-to-end Vision‑Language Models. It introduces deformation‑aware learning to handle geometric distortions, an adaptive sampling mechanism for complex layouts, and a content‑structure decoupled strategy to model formula grammars and table structures. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on multiple benchmarks, including top placement in the ICDAR 2026 Sci‑ImageMiner Challenge.
By Peng Cai, Zhaofan Zou, Shifa Liu, Yikun Wang, Jiawei Tang, Kaicheng Yang, Meng Tong, MingKun Jiang, Zhongjiang He, Hao Sun
arXiv:2607. 13639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce OvisOCR2, a 0.
By Shiyin Lu, Yinglun Li, Yu Xia, Yuhui Chen, An-Yang Ji, Jun-Peng Jiang, Qing-Guo Chen, Jianshan Zhao, En Lin, Haijun Li, Cheng Qin, Zhao Xu, Weihua Luo
arXiv:2608. 15064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parsing visual documents into machine-readable representations is fundamental to document intelligence.
By Yuefeng Zou, Yichen Lu, Jingxiao Yang, Bingtao Fu, Gaoyang Zhang, Xiongfei Bai, Tian Chen, Xiang Qi
Transforming table-form documents into machine-processable records requires recovering not only their visible content but also the multilevel structure that organizes it. However, existing benchmarks evaluate either holistic document outputs or conventional table grids, and their aggregate scores provide little insight into where structural failures occur.
ShredBench is a new benchmark for evaluating multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on the task of reconstructing documents from shredded fragments. It uses an automated pipeline that generates fragmented documents from Markdown, covering English, Chinese, code, and table scenarios with varying fragmentation levels. Experiments show that while MLLMs perform well on intact documents, their performance drops sharply when documents are shredded, revealing a gap in fine‑grained cross‑modal reasoning.
By Zichun Guo, Yuling Shi, Wenhao Zeng, Chao Hu, Haotian Lin, Terry Yue Zhuo, Jiawei Chen, Xiaodong Gu, Wenping Ma
Document understanding systems are typically evaluated as separate components via layout analysis, optical text recognition, reading-order prediction, and image captioning. This separation leaves scie...
arXiv:2610.20335v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Document understanding systems are typically evaluated as separate components via layout analysis, optical text recognition, reading-order prediction,...
By Yuheng Chen, Yufan Chen, Zhuojun Cai, Ruiping Liu, Junwei Zheng, Jiale Wei, Di Wen, Weijia Fan, Kunyu Peng, Jiaming Zhang, Rainer Stiefelhagen
The paper introduces MOTe, a decomposable error metric for Document Layout Analysis (DLA) that addresses shortcomings of traditional IoU‑based F1 scores. It proposes the Structural Semantic Unit (SSU) to focus on semantic structure and demonstrates that MOTe correlates more strongly with parsing‑induced Character Error Rates (CER) than F1, providing reliable upper and lower bounds on CER for model predictions. A Python library is released to facilitate the adoption of MOTe in DLA projects.
By Jonathan Bourne, Mwiza Simbeye, Ishtar Govia