Overview

A dataset for the document understanding community.

• 199 fully annotated forms

• 31485 words

• 9707 semantic entities

• 5304 relations

Data Format

All the annotations are encoded in a JSON file. An example showing the annotations for the image below is presented. A detailed description of each entry from the JSON file is provided in the original paper.

{
        "form": [
        {
            "id": 0,
            "text": "Registration No.",
            "box": [94,169,191,186],
            "linking": [
                [0,1]
            ],
            "label": "question",
            "words": [
                {
                    "text": "Registration",
                    "box": [94,169,168,186]
                },
                {
                    "text": "No.",
                    "box": [170,169,191,183]
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": 1,
            "text": "533",
            "box": [209,169,236,182],
            "label": "answer",
            "words": [
                {
                    "box": [209,169,236,182
                    ],
                    "text": "533"
                }
            ],
            "linking": [
                [0,1]
            ]
        }
    ]
    }

Citation

If you use this dataset for your research, please cite our paper:

@inproceedings{jaume2019,
    title = {FUNSD: A Dataset for Form Understanding in Noisy Scanned Documents},
    author = {Guillaume Jaume, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Jean-Philippe Thiran},
    booktitle = {Accepted to ICDAR-OST},
    year = {2019}
}

License

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