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.

```bash
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.