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Jul 6
HunyuanOCR-1.5: Making Lightweight OCR VLMs Faster and Better
We present HunyuanOCR-1. 5, a lightweight end-to-end OCR-specialized vision-language model.
HunyuanOCR-1.5: Making Lightweight OCR VLMs Faster and Better
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.
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arXiv AI
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NaviDC-OCR: Navigating Document Parsing Across Digital and Camera-Captured Documents
arXiv:2608. 12898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document parsing aims to transform unstructured documents into structured and machine-readable representations.
arXiv AI
Jul 21
DocOCR-Eval: A Correction-Based Framework for OCR Tool Selection Without Ground Truth
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 13
Multilingual OCR-Aware Fine-Tuning and Prompt-Guided Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Multimodal Large Language Models
arXiv:2605. 16409v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optical character recognition (OCR) and multilingual scene-text understanding remain challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in real-world images containing small or degraded text, cluttered layouts, occlusion, handwriting, and complex typography.
arXiv AI
Sep 30
PolyOCR-Venus: Unified OCR Foundation Models for Text-Centric Visual Intelligence
arXiv:2609.37712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is evolving from plain-text transcription toward general visual intelligence, requiring models to recognize, loca...
arXiv AI
Oct 9
From Pixels to Structure: Lightweight Vision-Language Models for Document OCR and Structured JSON Extraction
The paper evaluates eight open‑source lightweight Vision‑Language Models (up to 7 B parameters) for converting document images into structured JSON, focusing on heritage collections with historical handwriting and non‑standard layouts. It compares zero‑shot, few‑shot, and fine‑tuned settings, measuring performance with CER, ANLS*, and mAP‑F1, and examines the effects of hyperparameter tuning, image preprocessing, and multi‑stage training. The study demonstrates that adapted VLMs can serve as a sustainable, private alternative to commercial OCR systems for institutional archives.
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 27
OvisOCR3 Technical Report
arXiv:2610.33066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce OvisOCR3, a 0.8B model for a broad range of OCR-related tasks. OvisOCR3 unifies document parsing, general OCR, key information extraction...
arXiv Computation and Language
1d ago
Unlimited OCR Works 2
Unlimited OCR 2 is a document parsing model that processes only the text it transcribes, avoiding re‑scanning earlier pages. It replaces all decoder attention with Sparse Reference Sliding Window Attention (SR‑SWA), keeping computational costs constant regardless of document length. The model achieves significant per‑step speedups over Full Attention and R‑SWA, and sets new state‑of‑the‑art results on the MPDocBench and MarathonDocBench benchmarks for hundred‑page documents.
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22
All-in-One Multilingual Scene Text Recognition with Script-aware Mixture-of-Experts
The paper introduces an all‑in‑one multilingual scene text recognizer called ScriptMoE, which uses a script‑aware mixture‑of‑experts architecture to handle 10 scripts and 229 languages. It is built on a new large‑scale synthetic dataset, TextMuSS‑10M, and evaluated on the TextMuSS‑Bench, achieving 82.06% accuracy—1.31% higher than the best baseline. When integrated into the PP‑OCRv5 pipeline, ScriptMoE raises the end‑to‑end multilingual F1 score from 65.71% to 80.89%, slightly surpassing the best vision‑language model while using far fewer parameters.
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 30
Xiaomi-OCR-0 Technical Report
arXiv:2609.36136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compact OCR-specific vision-language models achieve strong document parsing performance, but often rely on costly supervision and focus primarily on vi...
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31
Synth-JDoc: Synthesizing a Japanese Document Image Dataset for OCR with Diverse Layouts and Embedded Images
The paper introduces Synth-JDoc, a synthetic Japanese document image dataset created by rendering text with HTML and CSS to produce multi‑column layouts that include both vertical and horizontal writing styles. Images generated by text‑to‑image models are embedded to enhance visual realism, and noise and degradation filters are applied to improve robustness. Experiments show that fine‑tuning Large Vision Language Models on Synth‑JDoc yields superior performance on reading vertically written Japanese text compared to prior synthetic datasets.
arXiv AI
Aug 20
Evaluating Structured Information Extraction with Open Models in a High Risk Public Sector Application
The paper evaluates open-source OCR, LLM, and VLM systems on a high‑risk public sector task: extracting structured data from student application documents. Results show that VLMs generally outperform OCR+LLM pipelines, yet only 4 of 35 configurations achieve F1 scores above 0.5, with most combinations scoring below 0.25. Model size and input quality, especially preserving OCR structure, are critical factors influencing performance.