Automatic information extraction from identity documents is a fundamental task in digital processes such as onboarding, requesting products, identity validation, among others. The information extraction process consists of identifying, locating, classifying and recognizing text of the corresponding key fields that an identity document contains. In the case of identity documents, key fields are: names, last names, document number, dates, among others.The information extraction problem has been traditionally solved using rule based algorithms and classic OCR engines. In the last few years there have been implementations based on machine learning models, using NLP (natural language processing) and CV (computer vision) to solve the problem in a more flexible and efficient way (Subramani et al., 2020). This work proposes to solve the problem of information extraction with an object detection approach. An object detection model based on transformers (Carion et al., 2020) was implemented, trained and evaluated. A solution with above 95% accuracy in detecting key fields on identification documents was achieved.

Pre-training of text and layout has proved effective in a variety of visually-rich document understanding tasks due to its effective model architecture and the advantage of large-scale unlabeled scanned/digital-born documents. We propose LayoutLMv2 architecture with new pre-training tasks to model the interaction among text, layout, and image in a single multi-modal framework. Specifically, with a two-stream multi-modal Transformer encoder, LayoutLMv2 uses not only the existing masked visual-language modeling task but also the new text-image alignment and text-image matching tasks, which make it better capture the cross-modality interaction in the pre-training stage. Meanwhile, it also integrates a spatial-aware self-attention mechanism into the Transformer architecture so that the model can fully understand the relative positional relationship among different text blocks. Experiment results show that LayoutLMv2 outperforms LayoutLM by a large margin and achieves new state-ofthe-art results on a wide variety of downstream visually-rich document understanding tasks, including FUNSD (0.7895 → 0.8420), CORD (0.9493 → 0.9601), SROIE (0.9524 → 0.9781), Kleister-NDA (0.8340 → 0.8520), RVL-CDIP (0.9443 → 0.9564), and DocVQA (0.7295 → 0.8672). We made our model and code publicly available at https://aka.ms /layoutlmv2.

Document layout analysis usually relies on computer vision models to understand documents while ignoring textual information that is vital to capture. Meanwhile, high quality labeled datasets with both visual and textual information are still insufficient. In this paper, we present DocBank, a benchmark dataset that contains 500K document pages with fine-grained tokenlevel annotations for document layout analysis. DocBank is constructed using a simple yet effective way with weak supervision from the L A T E X documents available on the arXiv.com. With DocBank, models from different modalities can be compared fairly and multi-modal approaches will be further investigated and boost the performance of document layout analysis. We build several strong baselines and manually split train/dev/test sets for evaluation. Experiment results show that models trained on DocBank accurately recognize the layout information for a variety of documents. The DocBank dataset is publicly available at https: //github.com/doc-analysis/DocBank.

Pre-training of text and layout has proved effective in a variety of visuallyrich document understanding tasks due to its effective model architecture and the advantage of large-scale unlabeled scanned/digital-born documents. In this paper, we present LayoutLMv2 by pre-training text, layout and image in a multi-modal framework, where new model architectures and pre-training tasks are leveraged. Specifically, LayoutLMv2 not only uses the existing masked visual-language modeling task but also the new text-image alignment and textimage matching tasks in the pre-training stage, where cross-modality interaction is better learned. Meanwhile, it also integrates a spatial-aware selfattention mechanism into the Transformer architecture, so that the model can fully understand the relative positional relationship among different text blocks. Experiment results show that LayoutLMv2 outperforms strong baselines and achieves new state-of-the-art results on a wide variety of downstream visuallyrich document understanding tasks, including FUNSD (0.7895 → 0.8420), CORD (0.9493 → 0.9601), SROIE (0.9524 → 0.9781), Kleister-NDA (0.834 → 0.852), RVL-CDIP (0.9443 → 0.9564), and DocVQA (0.7295 → 0.8672).

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