Docling Models

This page contains models that power the PDF document converion package docling.

Layout Model

The layout model will take an image from a page and apply RT-DETR model in order to find different layout components. It currently detects the labels: Caption, Footnote, Formula, List-item, Page-footer, Page-header, Picture, Section-header, Table, Text, Title. As a reference (from the DocLayNet-paper), this is the performance of standard object detection methods on the DocLayNet dataset compared to human evaluation,

	human	MRCNN	MRCNN	FRCNN	YOLO
	human	R50	R101	R101	v5x6
Caption	84-89	68.4	71.5	70.1	77.7
Footnote	83-91	70.9	71.8	73.7	77.2
Formula	83-85	60.1	63.4	63.5	66.2
List-item	87-88	81.2	80.8	81.0	86.2
Page-footer	93-94	61.6	59.3	58.9	61.1
Page-header	85-89	71.9	70.0	72.0	67.9
Picture	69-71	71.7	72.7	72.0	77.1
Section-header	83-84	67.6	69.3	68.4	74.6
Table	77-81	82.2	82.9	82.2	86.3
Text	84-86	84.6	85.8	85.4	88.1
Title	60-72	76.7	80.4	79.9	82.7
All	82-83	72.4	73.5	73.4	76.8

TableFormer

The tableformer model will identify the structure of the table, starting from an image of a table. It uses the predicted table regions of the layout model to identify the tables. Tableformer has SOTA table structure identification,

Model (TEDS)	Simple table	Complex table	All tables
Tabula	78.0	57.8	67.9
Traprange	60.8	49.9	55.4
Camelot	80.0	66.0	73.0
Acrobat Pro	68.9	61.8	65.3
EDD	91.2	85.4	88.3
TableFormer	95.4	90.1	93.6

References

@techreport{Docling,
  author = {Deep Search Team},
  month = {8},
  title = {{Docling Technical Report}},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09869},
  eprint={2408.09869},
  doi = "10.48550/arXiv.2408.09869",
  version = {1.0.0},
  year = {2024}
}

@article{doclaynet2022,
  title = {DocLayNet: A Large Human-Annotated Dataset for Document-Layout Analysis},  
  doi = {10.1145/3534678.353904},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01062},
  author = {Pfitzmann, Birgit and Auer, Christoph and Dolfi, Michele and Nassar, Ahmed S and Staar, Peter W J},
  year = {2022}
}

@InProceedings{TableFormer2022,
    author    = {Nassar, Ahmed and Livathinos, Nikolaos and Lysak, Maksym and Staar, Peter},
    title     = {TableFormer: Table Structure Understanding With Transformers},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {4614-4623},
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00457}
}