Document(metadata={'producer': 'pdfTeX-1.40.21', 'creator': 'LaTeX with hyperref', 'creationdate': '2021-06-22T01:27:10+00:00', 'source': './example_data/layout-parser-paper.pdf', 'file_path': './example_data/layout-parser-paper.pdf', 'total_pages': 16, 'format': 'PDF 1.5', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'moddate': '2021-06-22T01:27:10+00:00', 'trapped': '', 'modDate': 'D:20210622012710Z', 'creationDate': 'D:20210622012710Z', 'page': 0}, page_content='\`\`\`\nLayoutParser: A Unified Toolkit for Deep\n\n## Learning Based Document Image Analysis\n\n\`\`\`\n\nZejiang Shen[1] (�), Ruochen Zhang[2], Melissa Dell[3], Benjamin Charles Germain\nLee[4], Jacob Carlson[3], and Weining Li[5]\n\n1 Allen Institute for AI\n\`\`\`\n shannons@allenai.org\n\n\`\`\`\n2 Brown University\n\`\`\`\n ruochen zhang@brown.edu\n\n\`\`\`\n3 Harvard University\n_{melissadell,jacob carlson}@fas.harvard.edu_\n4 University of Washington\n\`\`\`\n bcgl@cs.washington.edu\n\n\`\`\`\n5 University of Waterloo\n\`\`\`\n w422li@uwaterloo.ca\n\n\`\`\`\n\n**Abstract. Recent advances in document image analysis (DIA) have been**\nprimarily driven by the application of neural networks. Ideally, research\noutcomes could be easily deployed in production and extended for further\ninvestigation. However, various factors like loosely organized codebases\nand sophisticated model configurations complicate the easy reuse of important innovations by a wide audience. Though there have been on-going\nefforts to improve reusability and simplify deep learning (DL) model\ndevelopment in disciplines like natural language processing and computer\nvision, none of them are optimized for challenges in the domain of DIA.\nThis represents a major gap in the existing toolkit, as DIA is central to\nacademic research across a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences\nand humanities. This paper introduces LayoutParser, an open-source\nlibrary for streamlining the usage of DL in DIA research and applications. The core LayoutParser library comes with a set of simple and\nintuitive interfaces for applying and customizing DL models for layout detection, character recognition, and many other document processing tasks.\nTo promote extensibility, LayoutParser also incorporates a community\nplatform for sharing both pre-trained models and full document digitization pipelines. We demonstrate that LayoutParser is helpful for both\nlightweight and large-scale digitization pipelines in real-word use cases.\n[The library is publicly available at https://layout-parser.github.io.](https://layout-parser.github.io)\n\n**Keywords: Document Image Analysis · Deep Learning · Layout Analysis**\n\n - Character Recognition · Open Source library · Toolkit.\n\n### 1 Introduction\n\n\nDeep Learning(DL)-based approaches are the state-of-the-art for a wide range of\ndocument image analysis (DIA) tasks including document image classification [11,\n\n')
