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
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
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
The paper introduces a controlled benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) on key‑value pair extraction from documents with varying levels of OCR noise. It tests 136 configurations across five instruction‑tuned open‑weight LLMs, three datasets, and four text‑quality conditions, using deterministic decoding to generate 17,688 document‑level inferences. The study finds that clean‑text performance does not reliably predict real‑world robustness, model rankings can reverse under noisy conditions, and few‑shot demonstrations do not always improve accuracy, highlighting reliability risks in OCR‑to‑LLM pipelines.
By Zahra Anvari
arXiv:2608. 12898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document parsing aims to transform unstructured documents into structured and machine-readable representations.
By Peng Cai, Zhaofan Zou, Shifa Liu, Yikun Wang, Jiawei Tang, Kaicheng Yang, Meng Tong, Zhongjiang He, Hao Sun
SciDocBench is a workflow-centered benchmark for scientific document understanding that includes 124 expert-authored questions across seven capability groups and 19 subtasks in five scientific domains. Each question is evaluated under four conditions—English or Chinese, all-images-first or interleaved document representations—resulting in 496 evaluation instances. The benchmark is paired with SciDocIR, a typed evidence-graph representation, and SciDocDataset, a collection of 15K fine-tuning and 8K reinforcement-learning samples, forming an evaluation-to-training framework for scientific-document assistants.
By Shenxi Wu, Yuhong Liu, Haosong Zhang, Tongjin Zou, Yanxun Zhang, Gaochang Chen, Dun Liang, Jiaqi Wang, Zhecan James Wang, Yuhang Zang, Dahua Lin
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:2512.09874v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Correctly parsing mathematical formulas from PDFs is critical for training large language models and building scientific knowledge bases from...
By Pius Horn, Janis Keuper
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...
By Xin Chen, Anan Du, Feng Feng, Pei Fu, Jian Luan, Longwei Xu, Shaojie Zhang, Hang Li, Heng Qu, Cheng Tan
WeVisDoc is a two‑stage data‑centric framework designed to improve end‑to‑end document parsing. Stage I expands coverage by adding heterogeneous data and applying structure‑preserving degradation synthesis, while Stage II evaluates residual errors with a held‑out probe and uses those diagnostics to target data construction and token budget reallocation. The resulting WeVisDoc‑4B model achieves an overall score of 95.38 on OmniDocBench v1.6 and outperforms competing parsers across all evaluated settings, with Stage II delivering notable gains on degraded tracks.
By Hao Yu, Kang Liu, Linnan Zhao, Jiabo Zhan, Chong Sun, Chen Li, Jing Lyu
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
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.
By Xingsong Ye, Yongkun Du, Jiaxin Zhang, Zhixian Li, Chong Sun, Chen Li, Jing Lyu, Lianwen Jin, Zhineng Chen