MoDora: Tree-Based Semi-Structured Document Analysis System

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23061v2
• Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:09:20 GMT
• Title: MoDora: Tree-Based Semi-Structured Document Analysis System
• Authors: Bangrui Xu, Qihang Yao, Zirui Tang, Xuanhe Zhou, Yeye He, Shihan Yu, Qianqian Xu, Bin Wang, Guoliang Li, Conghui He, Fan Wu,
• Abstract summary: Semi-structured documents integrate diverse interleaved data elements arranged in various and often irregular layouts.<n>MoDora is an LLM-powered system for semi-structured document analysis.<n> Experiments show MoDora outperforms baselines by 5.97%-61.07% in accuracy.
• Score: 62.01015188258797
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Semi-structured documents integrate diverse interleaved data elements (e.g., tables, charts, hierarchical paragraphs) arranged in various and often irregular layouts. These documents are widely observed across domains and account for a large portion of real-world data. However, existing methods struggle to support natural language question answering over these documents due to three main technical challenges: (1) The elements extracted by techniques like OCR are often fragmented and stripped of their original semantic context, making them inadequate for analysis. (2) Existing approaches lack effective representations to capture hierarchical structures within documents (e.g., associating tables with nested chapter titles) and to preserve layout-specific distinctions (e.g., differentiating sidebars from main content). (3) Answering questions often requires retrieving and aligning relevant information scattered across multiple regions or pages, such as linking a descriptive paragraph to table cells located elsewhere in the document. To address these issues, we propose MoDora, an LLM-powered system for semi-structured document analysis. First, we adopt a local-alignment aggregation strategy to convert OCR-parsed elements into layout-aware components, and conduct type-specific information extraction for components with hierarchical titles or non-text elements. Second, we design the Component-Correlation Tree (CCTree) to hierarchically organize components, explicitly modeling inter-component relations and layout distinctions through a bottom-up cascade summarization process. Finally, we propose a question-type-aware retrieval strategy that supports (1) layout-based grid partitioning for location-based retrieval and (2) LLM-guided pruning for semantic-based retrieval. Experiments show MoDora outperforms baselines by 5.97%-61.07% in accuracy. The code is at https://github.com/weAIDB/MoDora.

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