Long-document question-answering experiments show that human-verified TOC hierarchies and contextual relationships improve reasoning, with their combination providing complementary benefits.
Abstract
Parsing visual documents into machine-readable representations is fundamental to document intelligence. Existing benchmarks focus on page-level element recognition, reading order, formula recognition, and table structure. Long documents, however, also require document-level structure recovery. This includes reconstructing cross-page table-of-contents (TOC) hierarchies and identifying typed links from tables and figures to their captions, notes, and sources, often in one-to-many form. Because these structures are covered only partially or subsumed within broader parsing protocols, existing benchmarks cannot directly evaluate two key document-level tasks: \emph{Table-of-Contents Hierarchy Recovery} and \emph{Contextual Relationship Recovery}. To benchmark these two tasks, we introduce \textsc{LongDocBench}, comprising 85 real-world financial reports, textbooks, and academic papers spanning 2,582 pages, with up to 105 pages per document. It provides human-verified annotations for 3,937 heading nodes (mean node depth 3.55; maximum depth 9) and 3,258 contextual relationships annotated across 2,680 table and figure objects. We further evaluate both the downstream utility and recoverability of these structures. Long-document question-answering experiments show that human-verified TOC hierarchies and contextual relationships improve reasoning, with their combination providing complementary benefits. Meanwhile, representative document parsers remain limited on both recovery tasks despite strong page-level performance. To support further progress, we publicly release \textsc{LongDocBench} and its evaluation protocol and reproducible testbed for advancing document-level structure recovery in long documents.
Multilingual documents encapsulate rich regional cultures, scientific discoveries, and historical records. Parsing this content into structured, machine-readable formats is critical for unlocking global knowledge. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on high-resource languages like English and Chinese, creating an evaluation blind spot concerning model performance on other languages. While recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) claim support for hundreds of languages, the lack of ground truth makes it impossible to empirically verify these capabilities. To bridge this gap, we introduce MORE, a large-scale benchmark designed for multilingual document parsing evaluation. MORE distinguishes itself through three key dimensions: (1) Unprecedented Scale: It covers 149 languages, making it the most linguistically diverse benchmark to date; (2) Structural Complexity: Unlike previous works, it extends evaluation beyond plain text to include structural elements such as code blocks, tables, and catalogs; and (3) Data Authenticity: All samples are curated from real-world documents via a model-assisted, human-refined annotation pipeline. We evaluate state-of-the-art models using MORE, establishing new performance baselines for long-tail languages and validating the benchmark's effectiveness in diagnosing model capabilities in realistic, diverse scenarios. The MORE dataset will be available at https://github.com/zimoqingfeng/MORE.
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