ExStrucTiny: A Benchmark for Schema-Variable Structured Information Extraction from Document Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12203v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:38:57 GMT
• Title: ExStrucTiny: A Benchmark for Schema-Variable Structured Information Extraction from Document Images
• Authors: Mathieu Sibue, Andres Muñoz Garza, Samuel Mensah, Pranav Shetty, Zhiqiang Ma, Xiaomo Liu, Manuela Veloso,
• Abstract summary: We introduce ExStrucTiny, a new benchmark dataset for structured Information Extraction (IE) from document images.<n>Built through a novel pipeline combining manual and synthetic human-validated samples, ExStrucTiny covers more varied document types and extraction scenarios.<n>We analyze open and closed Vision Language Models on this benchmark, highlighting challenges such as adaptation, query under-specification, and schema adaptation.
• Score: 19.490609860018804
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Enterprise documents, such as forms and reports, embed critical information for downstream applications like data archiving, automated workflows, and analytics. Although generalist Vision Language Models (VLMs) perform well on established document understanding benchmarks, their ability to conduct holistic, fine-grained structured extraction across diverse document types and flexible schemas is not well studied. Existing Key Entity Extraction (KEE), Relation Extraction (RE), and Visual Question Answering (VQA) datasets are limited by narrow entity ontologies, simple queries, or homogeneous document types, often overlooking the need for adaptable and structured extraction. To address these gaps, we introduce ExStrucTiny, a new benchmark dataset for structured Information Extraction (IE) from document images, unifying aspects of KEE, RE, and VQA. Built through a novel pipeline combining manual and synthetic human-validated samples, ExStrucTiny covers more varied document types and extraction scenarios. We analyze open and closed VLMs on this benchmark, highlighting challenges such as schema adaptation, query under-specification, and answer localization. We hope our work provides a bedrock for improving generalist models for structured IE in documents.

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