Reading Order Detection

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

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

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

4 shown of 4 papers with code (6 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.

• Reading Order Matters: Information Extraction from Visually-rich Documents by Token Path Prediction
  17 Oct 2023 2 repositories listed
  However, BIO-tagging scheme relies on the correct order of model inputs, which is not guaranteed in real-world NER on scanned VrDs where text are recognized and arranged by OCR systems.
• Infinity Parser: Layout Aware Reinforcement Learning for Scanned Document Parsing
  1 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Automated parsing of scanned documents into richly structured, machine-readable formats remains a critical bottleneck in Document AI, as traditional multi-stage pipelines suffer from error propagation and limited…
• Modeling Layout Reading Order as Ordering Relations for Visually-rich Document Understanding
  29 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  However, we argue that this formulation does not adequately convey the complete reading order information in the layout, which may potentially lead to performance decline in downstream VrD tasks.
• LayoutReader: Pre-training of Text and Layout for Reading Order Detection
  26 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  Reading order detection is the cornerstone to understanding visually-rich documents (e.