Transformer-Based UNet with Multi-Headed Cross-Attention Skip Connections to Eliminate Artifacts in Scanned Documents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02815v1
• Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 12:12:23 GMT
• Title: Transformer-Based UNet with Multi-Headed Cross-Attention Skip Connections to Eliminate Artifacts in Scanned Documents
• Authors: David Kreuzer and Michael Munz
• Abstract summary: A modified UNet structure using a Swin Transformer backbone is presented to remove typical artifacts in scanned documents. An improvement in text extraction quality with a reduced error rate of up to 53.9% on the synthetic data is archived.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The extraction of text in high quality is essential for text-based document analysis tasks like Document Classification or Named Entity Recognition. Unfortunately, this is not always ensured, as poor scan quality and the resulting artifacts lead to errors in the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. Current approaches using Convolutional Neural Networks show promising results for background removal tasks but fail correcting artifacts like pixelation or compression errors. For general images, Transformer backbones are getting integrated more frequently in well-known neural network structures for denoising tasks. In this work, a modified UNet structure using a Swin Transformer backbone is presented to remove typical artifacts in scanned documents. Multi-headed cross-attention skip connections are used to more selectively learn features in respective levels of abstraction. The performance of this approach is examined regarding compression errors, pixelation and random noise. An improvement in text extraction quality with a reduced error rate of up to 53.9% on the synthetic data is archived. The pretrained base-model can be easily adapted to new artifacts. The cross-attention skip connections allow to integrate textual information extracted from the encoder or in form of commands to more selectively control the models outcome. The latter is shown by means of an example application.

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