awesome-document-understanding

Why we included this project

Document understanding sits at the messy intersection of OCR, layout analysis, and information extraction, and this list is a solid map of that territory. Instead of a flat pile of links, it sorts papers, datasets, and tools into concrete sub-topics like key information extraction, layout analysis, document question answering, and OCR, with the author bolding the entries that matter most. It also collects PDF processing utilities and pretraining datasets, which is exactly what you need when you start building. Teams scoping an IDP or RPA project can use it to survey the field's methods and benchmarks before picking a library or model. It is a curated index rather than runnable software, so treat it as a starting point for further research.