highlight_generator/README.md

HighlightBench Synthetic Generators

This folder provides two generation entry points.

Benchmark-like generator

This is the recommended generator for release. It creates paper-style tables with multi-level headers, missing values, highlights, underlines, bold text, and QA annotations.

pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 generate_benchmark_like.py --out-dir benchmark_like_demo --count 1 --seed 7

Outputs include:

• benchmark_like_demo/images/img_00001.png
• benchmark_like_demo/qa.jsonl
• benchmark_like_demo/gt.jsonl
• benchmark_like_demo/ann/img_00001.json

Minimal demo generator

generate_demo.py is a tiny sanity-check generator for a simple highlighted numeric table.