arXiv Computer Vision

TeleOCR: Navigating Document Parsing Across Digital and Camera-Captured Documents

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.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 24

Identify, Locate, Link: End-to-End Key-Value Extraction from Document Images

arXiv:2608.20868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document processing pipelines traditionally cascade optical character recognition (OCR) engines with downstream models for structured information ext...

By A. Said Gurbuz (IBM Research Zurich, ETH Zurich), Ahmed Nassar (IBM Research Zurich), Christoph Auer (IBM Research Zurich), Maksym Lysak (IBM Research Zurich), Lucas Morin (IBM Research Zurich), Matteo Omenetti (IBM Research Zurich), Tim Strohmeyer (IBM Research Zurich), Panagiotis Vagenas (IBM Research Zurich), Nikolaos Livathinos (IBM Research Zurich), Michele Dolfi (IBM Research Zurich), Peter Staar (IBM Research Zurich)
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Towards Hierarchical Structure Understanding of Newspaper Images

arXiv:2607. 15082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding newspaper images remains a challenging task due to their complex, nested hierarchical structures and dense, heterogeneous layouts.

By William Moca\"er, Sol\`ene Tarride, Thomas Constum, Merveilles Agbeti-Messan, Tom Simon, Cl\'ement Chatelain, St\'ephane Nicolas, Pierrick Tranouez, S\'ebastien Cretin, Thierry Paquet
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Doc-CoB: Enhancing Document Understanding with Visual Chain-of-Boxes Reasoning

Doc‑CoB introduces a Chain‑of‑Boxes framework that enhances document understanding by progressively focusing on query‑relevant layout regions while preserving global context. It selects key layout boxes and then applies visual prompting for deeper analysis, supported by two new reasoning tasks and an automatic pipeline that generates 249k training samples with intermediate visual supervision. Experiments across seven benchmarks and four popular models demonstrate significant performance gains, underscoring the method’s effectiveness and broad applicability.

By Ye Mo, Kai Ye, Xianwei Mao, Zirui Shao, Gang Huang, Bo Zhang, Hangdi Xing, Kehan Chen, Huan Zhou, Zixu Yan, Jiajun Bu, Sheng Zhou
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.

By Zihan Xu, Puzhen Wu, Lawrence Chun Man Lau, Wei Liu, Sirui Li, Yifan Peng, Yihao Ding
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Dr. DocBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Expert-Level and Difficult Document Parsing

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
arXiv AI
Jun 24

When Language Overwrites Vision: Over-Alignment and Geometric Debiasing in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605. 08245v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) increasingly power high-stakes applications, from medical imaging to autonomous systems, yet they routinely hallucinate, confidently describing content not present in the input.

By Harshvardhan Saini, Samyak Jha, Yiming Tang, Dianbo Liu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8

Comparative Study of Domain-adapted VLMs for General Document Visual Question Answering

Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) presents a complex multimodal challenge, requiring models to exploit visual, textual, and layout information from documents. Although Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance in text-vision tasks, their robustness and transferability to different document domains remains underexplored.