Document Layout Analysis

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

13 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 47 papers with code (99 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Training data-efficient image transformers & distillation through attention
  23 Dec 2020 40 repositories listed Syntology ran 12 of 19 samples · 7 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  In this work, we produce a competitive convolution-free transformer by training on Imagenet only.
• LayoutLM: Pre-training of Text and Layout for Document Image Understanding
  31 Dec 2019 19 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we propose the \textbf{LayoutLM} to jointly model interactions between text and layout information across scanned document images, which is beneficial for a great number of real-world document image…
• BEiT: BERT Pre-Training of Image Transformers
  15 Jun 2021 14 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 11 samples · 5 unverified
  We first "tokenize" the original image into visual tokens.
• LayoutLMv2: Multi-modal Pre-training for Visually-Rich Document Understanding
  29 Dec 2020 9 repositories listed
  Pre-training of text and layout has proved effective in a variety of visually-rich document understanding tasks due to its effective model architecture and the advantage of large-scale unlabeled scanned/digital-born…
• PubLayNet: largest dataset ever for document layout analysis
  16 Aug 2019 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 7 of 13 samples · 6 unverified · 13 pointer-only (licence)
  Deep neural networks that are developed for computer vision have been proven to be an effective method to analyze layout of document images.
• dhSegment: A generic deep-learning approach for document segmentation
  27 Apr 2018 5 repositories listed
  In recent years there have been multiple successful attempts tackling document processing problems separately by designing task specific hand-tuned strategies.
• DocLayNet: A Large Human-Annotated Dataset for Document-Layout Analysis
  2 Jun 2022 4 repositories listed
  Lastly, we compare models trained on PubLayNet, DocBank and DocLayNet, showing that layout predictions of the DocLayNet-trained models are more robust and thus the preferred choice for general-purpose document-layout…
• LayoutLMv3: Pre-training for Document AI with Unified Text and Image Masking
  18 Apr 2022 4 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose \textbf{LayoutLMv3} to pre-train multimodal Transformers for Document AI with unified text and image masking.
• DiT: Self-supervised Pre-training for Document Image Transformer
  4 Mar 2022 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 11 samples · 11 unverified
  We leverage DiT as the backbone network in a variety of vision-based Document AI tasks, including document image classification, document layout analysis, table detection as well as text detection for OCR.
• Towards End-to-End Unified Scene Text Detection and Layout Analysis
  28 Mar 2022 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 8 of 15 samples · 7 unverified · 15 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we bring them together and introduce the task of unified scene text detection and layout analysis.
• CDeC-Net: Composite Deformable Cascade Network for Table Detection in Document Images
  25 Aug 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 6 samples · 6 unverified
  Localizing page elements/objects such as tables, figures, equations, etc.
• A Large Dataset of Historical Japanese Documents with Complex Layouts
  18 Apr 2020 3 repositories listed
  Deep learning-based approaches for automatic document layout analysis and content extraction have the potential to unlock rich information trapped in historical documents on a large scale.
• Combining Visual and Textual Features for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Newspapers
  14 Feb 2020 3 repositories listed
  The massive amounts of digitized historical documents acquired over the last decades naturally lend themselves to automatic processing and exploration.
• DocLayout-YOLO: Enhancing Document Layout Analysis through Diverse Synthetic Data and Global-to-Local Adaptive Perception
  16 Oct 2024 2 repositories listed
  Pre-training on the resulting DocSynth-300K dataset significantly improves fine-tuning performance across various document types.
• Text Role Classification in Scientific Charts Using Multimodal Transformers
  8 Feb 2024 2 repositories listed
  The models are evaluated on various chart datasets, and results show that LayoutLMv3 outperforms UDOP in all experiments.
• DocBank: A Benchmark Dataset for Document Layout Analysis
  1 Jun 2020 2 repositories listed
  DocBank is constructed using a simple yet effective way with weak supervision from the \LaTeX{} documents available on the arXiv.
• Class-Agnostic Region-of-Interest Matching in Document Images
  26 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Document understanding and analysis have received a lot of attention due to their widespread application.
• SFDLA: Source-Free Document Layout Analysis
  24 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  In this work, we introduce Source-Free Document Layout Analysis (SFDLA), aiming for adapting a pre-trained source DLA models to an unlabeled target domain, without access to any source data.
• PP-DocLayout: A Unified Document Layout Detection Model to Accelerate Large-Scale Data Construction
  21 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Document layout analysis is a critical preprocessing step in document intelligence, enabling the detection and localization of structural elements such as titles, text blocks, tables, and formulas.
• UniHDSA: A Unified Relation Prediction Approach for Hierarchical Document Structure Analysis
  20 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Document structure analysis, aka document layout analysis, is crucial for understanding both the physical layout and logical structure of documents, serving information retrieval, document summarization, knowledge…
• Information Extraction from Visually Rich Documents Using Directed Weighted Graph Neural Network
  11 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  This paper presents a novel approach to information extraction (IE) from visually rich documents (VRD) by employing a directed weighted graph representation to capture relationships among various VRD components.
• PdfTable: A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning-Based Table Extraction
  8 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  To address these issues, we have introduced the PDF table extraction (PdfTable) toolkit.
• DANIEL: A fast Document Attention Network for Information Extraction and Labelling of handwritten documents
  12 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  Despite this, these integrated approaches have not yet matched the performance of language models, when applied to information extraction in plain text.
• RoDLA: Benchmarking the Robustness of Document Layout Analysis Models
  21 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  To address this, we are the first to introduce a robustness benchmark for DLA models, which includes 450K document images of three datasets.
• Detect-Order-Construct: A Tree Construction based Approach for Hierarchical Document Structure Analysis
  22 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Our end-to-end system achieves state-of-the-art performance on two large-scale document layout analysis datasets (PubLayNet and DocLayNet), a high-quality hierarchical document structure reconstruction dataset (HRDoc),…
• Multimodal weighted graph representation for information extraction from visually rich documents.
  5 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  This paper introduces a novel system for information extraction from visually rich documents (VRD) using a weighted graph representation.
• DCQA: Document-Level Chart Question Answering towards Complex Reasoning and Common-Sense Understanding
  29 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  Our DCQA dataset is expected to foster research on understanding visualizations in documents, especially for scenarios that require complex reasoning for charts in the visually-rich document.
• DocXChain: A Powerful Open-Source Toolchain for Document Parsing and Beyond
  19 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  In this report, we introduce DocXChain, a powerful open-source toolchain for document parsing, which is designed and developed to automatically convert the rich information embodied in unstructured documents, such as…
• appjsonify: An Academic Paper PDF-to-JSON Conversion Toolkit
  2 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  We present appjsonify, a Python-based PDF-to-JSON conversion toolkit for academic papers.
• Vision Grid Transformer for Document Layout Analysis
  29 Aug 2023 1 repository listed
  Document pre-trained models and grid-based models have proven to be very effective on various tasks in Document AI.

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