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:2607. 05614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document comprehension is a challenging yet impactful task for Multimodal Large Language Models, especially as these systems see growing adoption in real-world, human-centric applications.
arXiv:2603. 27223v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present EuraGovExam, a multilingual and multimodal benchmark sourced from real-world civil service examinations across five representative Eurasian regions: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, and the European Union.
Sinhala is a morphologically rich abugida spoken by roughly 16 million people in Sri Lanka, and to date, there are no publicly available real-world datasets for page-level Sinhala OCR. All previous studies for assessing Sinhala OCR models have used artificially generated data.
The paper introduces a unified model that jointly performs Khmer text recognition and word segmentation, eliminating the need for a separate segmentation step. Using a connectionist-temporal-classification decoder, the model can be instructed to output Khmer text with or without word boundaries. Experiments across document, scene, and handwritten image datasets demonstrate that the model accurately recognizes characters and locates word boundaries, reducing error and latency compared to traditional sequential pipelines.
arXiv:2608.21365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As a low-resource language, Khmer presents several retrieval challenges, including limited annotated data, ambiguous word boundaries, weak support in...
arXiv:2608. 07917v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chinese historical documents preserve valuable cultural heritage, but many collections remain accessible only as scanned page images, preventing full-text retrieval, collation, and computational analysis.
arXiv:2608.22366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly being used for document understanding, yet their role in Arabic and Islamic manuscript recognition remai...
arXiv:2608. 19212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Out-of-context (OOC) misinformation pairs authentic images with misleading captions to construct false narratives without image manipulation, making detection a problem of multimodal alignment rather than image forensics.
The paper explores how synthetic data can be used to train a Thai OCR model without real OCR labels. By systematically varying factors such as typeface diversity, page structure, and handwriting glyphs, the authors identify which aspects of realism most improve transfer to real documents. Using these insights, they adapt a large PaddleOCR model into Wayu‑Paxa‑OCR‑Zero, achieving a median character error rate of 1.24% on printed pages and 20.55% on handwriting, outperforming existing Thai OCR systems.
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.
arXiv:2605.27750v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that Vision-Language Models (VLMs) used for optical character recognition (OCR) can generate plausible but visually uns...