PositionOCR: Augmenting Positional Awareness in Multi-Modal Models via Hybrid Specialist Integration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19188v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:36:48 GMT
• Title: PositionOCR: Augmenting Positional Awareness in Multi-Modal Models via Hybrid Specialist Integration
• Authors: Chen Duan, Zhentao Guo, Pei Fu, Zining Wang, Kai Zhou, Pengfei Yan,
• Abstract summary: We introduce PositionOCR, a parameter-efficient hybrid architecture that seamlessly integrates a text spotting model's positional strengths with an LLM's contextual reasoning.<n>This framework demonstrates outstanding multi-modal processing capabilities, particularly excelling in tasks such as text grounding and text spotting.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In recent years, Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance in OCR-centric Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks, illustrating their capability to process heterogeneous data and exhibit adaptability across varied contexts. However, these MLLMs rely on a Large Language Model (LLM) as the decoder, which is primarily designed for linguistic processing, and thus inherently lacks the positional reasoning required for precise visual tasks, such as text spotting and text grounding. Additionally, the extensive parameters of MLLMs necessitate substantial computational resources and large-scale data for effective training. Conversely, text spotting specialists achieve state-of-the-art coordinate predictions but lack semantic reasoning capabilities. This dichotomy motivates our key research question: Can we synergize the efficiency of specialists with the contextual power of LLMs to create a positionally-accurate MLLM? To overcome these challenges, we introduce PositionOCR, a parameter-efficient hybrid architecture that seamlessly integrates a text spotting model's positional strengths with an LLM's contextual reasoning. Comprising 131M trainable parameters, this framework demonstrates outstanding multi-modal processing capabilities, particularly excelling in tasks such as text grounding and text spotting, consistently surpassing traditional MLLMs.

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