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PDFVQA: A New Dataset for Real-World VQA on PDF Documents

13 Apr 2023arXiv:2304.06447archive 2025-07-28

Yihao Ding, Siwen Luo, Hyunsuk Chung, Soyeon Caren Han

Document-based Visual Question Answering examines the document understanding of document images in conditions of natural language questions. We proposed a new document-based VQA dataset, PDF-VQA, to comprehensively examine the document understanding from various aspects, including document element recognition, document layout structural understanding as well as contextual understanding and key information extraction. Our PDF-VQA dataset extends the current scale of document understanding that limits on the single document page to the new scale that asks questions over the full document of multiple pages. We also propose a new graph-based VQA model that explicitly integrates the spatial and hierarchically structural relationships between different document elements to boost the document structural understanding. The performances are compared with several baselines over different question types and tasks\footnote{The full dataset will be released after paper acceptance.

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Key Information ExtractionQuestion AnsweringVisual Question AnsweringVisual Question Answering (VQA)document understanding

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