Towards Real-World Document Parsing via Realistic Scene Synthesis and Document-Aware Training

TL;DR

This paper introduces a co-designed framework combining realistic scene synthesis and document-aware training to improve end-to-end document parsing robustness, especially in real-world scenarios.

Contribution

It proposes a novel data-training co-design approach with a large-scale synthetic dataset and structure-aware training strategies for robust document parsing.

Findings

Achieves superior accuracy across diverse document scenarios

Demonstrates robustness on real-world captured documents

Provides publicly available models and benchmarks

Abstract

Document parsing has recently advanced with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that directly map document images to structured outputs. Traditional cascaded pipelines depend on precise layout analysis and often fail under casually captured or non-standard conditions. Although end-to-end approaches mitigate this dependency, they still exhibit repetitive, hallucinated, and structurally inconsistent predictions - primarily due to the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality full-page (document-level) end-to-end parsing data and the lack of structure-aware training strategies. To address these challenges, we propose a data-training co-design framework for robust end-to-end document parsing. A Realistic Scene Synthesis strategy constructs large-scale, structurally diverse full-page end-to-end supervision by composing layout templates with rich document elements, while a Document-Aware Training Recipe introduces progressive learning and structure-token optimization to enhance structural fidelity and decoding stability. We further build Wild-OmniDocBench, a benchmark derived from real-world captured documents for robustness evaluation. Integrated into a 1B-parameter MLLM, our method achieves superior accuracy and robustness across both scanned/digital and real-world captured scenarios. All models, data synthesis pipelines, and benchmarks will be publicly released to advance future research in document understanding.