Tab this folder of documents: page stream segmentation of business documents

Thisanaporn Mungmeeprued, Yuxin Ma, Nisarg Mehta, Aldo Lipani

Abstract: In the midst of digital transformation, automatically understanding the structure and composition of scanned documents is important in order to allow correct indexing, archiving, and processing. In many organizations, different types of documents are usually scanned together in folders, so it is essential to automate the task of segmenting the folders into documents which then proceed to further analysis tailored to specific document types. This task is known as Page Stream Segmentation (PSS). In this paper, we propose a deep learning solution to solve the task of determining whether or not a page is a breaking-point given a sequence of scanned pages (a folder) as input. We also provide a dataset called TABME (TAB this folder of docuMEnts) generated specifically for this task. Our proposed architecture combines LayoutLM and ResNet to exploit both textual and visual features of the document pages and achieves an F1 score of 0.953. The dataset and code used to run the experiments in this paper are available at the following web link: https://github.com/aldolipani/TABME.