SDL: New data generation tools for full-level annotated document layout

TL;DR

This paper introduces SDL, a data generation tool that creates richly annotated document images with detailed layout information, supporting low-resource languages and large-scale dataset creation.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel tool for generating fully annotated document images with detailed layout information, including a large Vietnamese dataset and instructions for multilingual extension.

Findings

Generated 320,000 Vietnamese synthetic document images.

Enabled large-scale dataset creation for low-resource languages.

Facilitated detailed layout annotation for document processing.

Abstract

We present a novel data generation tool for document processing. The tool focuses on providing a maximal level of visual information in a normal type document, ranging from character position to paragraph-level position. It also enables working with a large dataset on low-resource languages as well as providing a mean of processing thorough full-level information of the documented text. The data generation tools come with a dataset of 320000 Vietnamese synthetic document images and an instruction to generate a dataset of similar size in other languages. The repository can be found at: https://github.com/tson1997/SDL-Document-Image-Generation