A Multistage Extraction Pipeline for Long Scanned Financial Documents: An Empirical Study in Industrial KYC Workflows (2026.acl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Structured information extraction from long, multilingual scanned financial documents is a core requirement in industrial KYC and compliance workflows. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for structured information extraction from long, multilingual scanned financial documents . they combine image preprocessing, multilinguistic OCR, hybrid page-level retrieval and VLMs . |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline outperforms direct PDF-to-VLM baselines on 120 production KYC documents. |
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