XFormParser: A Simple and Effective Multimodal Multilingual Semi-structured Form Parser

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17336v2
• Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:55:15 GMT
• Title: XFormParser: A Simple and Effective Multimodal Multilingual Semi-structured Form Parser
• Authors: Xianfu Cheng, Hang Zhang, Jian Yang, Xiang Li, Weixiao Zhou, Fei Liu, Kui Wu, Xiangyuan Guan, Tao Sun, Xianjie Wu, Tongliang Li, Zhoujun Li,
• Abstract summary: We introduce textbfMultilingual semi-structured textbfXForm textbfPARSER (textbfXForm), which anchored on a comprehensive pre-trained language model. We also develop InDFormSFT, a dataset that specifically addresses the parsing needs of forms in various industrial contexts.
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• Abstract: In the domain of Document AI, parsing semi-structured image form is a crucial Key Information Extraction (KIE) task. The advent of pre-trained multimodal models significantly empowers Document AI frameworks to extract key information from form documents in different formats such as PDF, Word, and images. Nonetheless, form parsing is still encumbered by notable challenges like subpar capabilities in multilingual parsing and diminished recall in industrial contexts in rich text and rich visuals. In this work, we introduce a simple but effective \textbf{M}ultimodal and \textbf{M}ultilingual semi-structured \textbf{FORM} \textbf{PARSER} (\textbf{XFormParser}), which anchored on a comprehensive Transformer-based pre-trained language model and innovatively amalgamates semantic entity recognition (SER) and relation extraction (RE) into a unified framework. Combined with Bi-LSTM, the performance of multilingual parsing is significantly improved. Furthermore, we develop InDFormSFT, a pioneering supervised fine-tuning (SFT) industrial dataset that specifically addresses the parsing needs of forms in various industrial contexts. XFormParser has demonstrated its unparalleled effectiveness and robustness through rigorous testing on established benchmarks. Compared to existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models, XFormParser notably achieves up to 1.79\% F1 score improvement on RE tasks in language-specific settings. It also exhibits exceptional cross-task performance improvements in multilingual and zero-shot settings. The codes, datasets, and pre-trained models are publicly available at https://github.com/zhbuaa0/xformparser.

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