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20182026
most citedDocLayNet: A Large Human-Annotated Dataset for Document-Layout Analysis

139 citations · 230 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CV2026

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

A. Said Gurbuz, Ahmed Nassar, Christoph Auer +8

Document processing pipelines traditionally cascade optical character recognition (OCR) engines with downstream models for structured information extraction, leading to multi-stage…

cs.CV2026

Structured Layout Priors for Robust Out-of-Distribution Visual Document Understanding

Peter El Hachem, Ahmed Nassar, A. Said Gurbuz +2

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) parse documents end-to-end but frequently break down on layouts unlike those seen in training. We attribute this to a two-hop bottleneck: before the d…

cs.CV2025

Advanced Layout Analysis Models for Docling

Nikolaos Livathinos, Christoph Auer, Ahmed Nassar +16

This technical report documents the development of novel Layout Analysis models integrated into the Docling document-conversion pipeline. We trained several state-of-the-art object…

cs.CV2025

SmolDocling: An ultra-compact vision-language model for end-to-end multi-modal document conversion

Ahmed Nassar, Andres Marafioti, Matteo Omenetti +10

We introduce SmolDocling, an ultra-compact vision-language model targeting end-to-end document conversion. Our model comprehensively processes entire pages by generating DocTags, a…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Granite Vision: a lightweight, open-source multimodal model for enterprise Intelligence

Granite Vision Team, Leonid Karlinsky, Assaf Arbelle +60

We introduce Granite Vision, a lightweight large language model with vision capabilities, specifically designed to excel in enterprise use cases, particularly in visual document un…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Docling: An Efficient Open-Source Toolkit for AI-driven Document Conversion

Nikolaos Livathinos, Christoph Auer, Maksym Lysak +14

We introduce Docling, an easy-to-use, self-contained, MIT-licensed, open-source toolkit for document conversion, that can parse several types of popular document formats into a uni…

cs.CL2024★ 12 cited

Docling Technical Report

Christoph Auer, Maksym Lysak, Ahmed Nassar +16

This technical report introduces Docling, an easy to use, self-contained, MIT-licensed open-source package for PDF document conversion. It is powered by state-of-the-art specialize…

cs.IR2024

KVP10k : A Comprehensive Dataset for Key-Value Pair Extraction in Business Documents

Oshri Naparstek, Roi Pony, Inbar Shapira +15

In recent years, the challenge of extracting information from business documents has emerged as a critical task, finding applications across numerous domains. This effort has attra…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

ESG Accountability Made Easy: DocQA at Your Service

Lokesh Mishra, Cesar Berrospi, Kasper Dinkla +11

We present Deep Search DocQA. This application enables information extraction from documents via a question-answering conversational assistant. The system integrates several techno…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

ICDAR 2023 Competition on Robust Layout Segmentation in Corporate Documents

Christoph Auer, Ahmed Nassar, Maksym Lysak +3

Transforming documents into machine-processable representations is a challenging task due to their complex structures and variability in formats. Recovering the layout structure an…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Optimized Table Tokenization for Table Structure Recognition

Maksym Lysak, Ahmed Nassar, Nikolaos Livathinos +2

Extracting tables from documents is a crucial task in any document conversion pipeline. Recently, transformer-based models have demonstrated that table-structure can be recognized…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

FETA: Towards Specializing Foundation Models for Expert Task Applications

Amit Alfassy, Assaf Arbelle, Oshri Halimi +10

Foundation Models (FMs) have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities including zero-shot learning, high fidelity data synthesis, and out of domain generalization. However, as we sh…

cs.CV2022★ 139 cited

DocLayNet: A Large Human-Annotated Dataset for Document-Layout Analysis

Birgit Pfitzmann, Christoph Auer, Michele Dolfi +2

Accurate document layout analysis is a key requirement for high-quality PDF document conversion. With the recent availability of public, large ground-truth datasets such as PubLayN…

cs.DL2022★ 10 cited

Delivering Document Conversion as a Cloud Service with High Throughput and Responsiveness

Christoph Auer, Michele Dolfi, André Carvalho +2

Document understanding is a key business process in the data-driven economy since documents are central to knowledge discovery and business insights. Converting documents into a ma…

cs.LG2021

Robust PDF Document Conversion Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Nikolaos Livathinos, Cesar Berrospi, Maksym Lysak +7

The number of published PDF documents has increased exponentially in recent decades. There is a growing need to make their rich content discoverable to information retrieval tools.…

cs.IR2019★ 8 cited

An Information Extraction and Knowledge Graph Platform for Accelerating Biochemical Discoveries

Matteo Manica, Christoph Auer, Valery Weber +9

Information extraction and data mining in biochemical literature is a daunting task that demands resource-intensive computation and appropriate means to scale knowledge ingestion.…

cs.DL2018★ 44 cited

Corpus Conversion Service: A Machine Learning Platform to Ingest Documents at Scale

Peter W J Staar, Michele Dolfi, Christoph Auer +1

Over the past few decades, the amount of scientific articles and technical literature has increased exponentially in size. Consequently, there is a great need for systems that can…

cs.DL2018★ 1 cited

Corpus Conversion Service: A machine learning platform to ingest documents at scale [Poster abstract]

Peter W J Staar, Michele Dolfi, Christoph Auer +1

Over the past few decades, the amount of scientific articles and technical literature has increased exponentially in size. Consequently, there is a great need for systems that can…