Reading Order Matters: Information Extraction from Visually-rich Documents by Token Path Prediction (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in multimodal pre-trained models have significantly improved information extraction from visually-rich documents (VrDs). |
| Approach: | They propose a method to predict token sequences within visually-rich documents by a simple prediction head. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can be used to predict token mentions as token sequences within documents. |
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