Boosting Document Parsing Efficiency and Performance with Coarse-to-Fine Visual Processing

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• PaddleOCR-VL achieves state-of-the-art performance in both page-level parsing and element-level recognition.result 90%
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  Extensive experiments demonstrate that PaddleOCR-VL achieves state-of-the-art performance in both page-level parsing and element-level recognition.

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• The coarse-to-fine architecture with Valid Region Focus Module reduces computational costs by focusing on semantically relevant regions while suppressing redundant ones.method 85%
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  We propose PaddleOCR-VL, a novel coarse-to-fine architecture that focuses on semantically relevant regions while suppressing redundant ones, thereby improving both efficiency and performance.

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• PaddleOCR-VL delivers fast inference while utilizing substantially fewer vision tokens and parameters compared to existing solutions.technical 80%
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  It significantly outperforms existing solutions... and delivers fast inference while utilizing substantially fewer vision tokens and parameters

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• The model was evaluated on OmniDocBench v1.5 benchmark and achieved state-of-the-art performance in text, formula, table, and reading order tasks.result 90%
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  The model was evaluated on the OmniDocBench v1.5 benchmark, achieving state-of-the-art performance in text, formula, table, and reading order

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• The architecture includes a compact 0.9B vision-language model that performs detailed recognition guided by VRFM outputs.method 85%
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  We design and train a compact yet powerful 0.9B vision-language model (PaddleOCR-VL-0.9B) to perform detailed recognition, guided by VRFM outputs

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• The model's performance depends on the quality of initial layout detection and may struggle with highly anomalous document structures.limitation 80%
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  Potential limitations include the model's dependency on the quality of the initial layout detection and the handling of highly anomalous document structures.

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• PaddleOCR-VL significantly outperforms existing solutions and exhibits strong competitiveness against top-tier vision-language models.result 75%
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  It significantly outperforms existing solutions, exhibits strong competitiveness against top-tier VLMs

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• The approach addresses the quadratic increase in vision tokens that occurs with high-resolution input in traditional document parsing methods.technical 80%
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  While advanced research leveraging vision-language models benefits from high-resolution input to boost model performance, this often leads to a quadratic increase in the number of vision tokens and significantly raises computational costs.

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PaddleOCR-VL enhances document parsing efficiency by focusing on semantically relevant regions with a coarse-to-fine processing framework.