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"text": "Form-like documents, such as invoices, paystubs and patient referral forms, are very common in daily business workflows. A large amount of human effort is required to extract information from forms every day. In form processing, a worker is usually given a list of expected form fields (e.g., purchase_order, invoice_number and total_amount in Figure 1 ), and the goal is to extract their corresponding values based on the understanding of the form, where keys are generally the most important features for value localization. A field extraction system aims to automatically extract field values from redundant information in forms, which is crucial for improving processing efficiency and reducing human labor.",
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"text": "Recent methods formulate this problem as fieldvalue pairing or field tagging. Majumder et al. Figure 1 : Field extraction from forms is to extract the value for each field, e.g., invoice_number, purchase_order and total_amount, in a given list. A key, e.g., INVOICE#, PO Number and Total, refers to a concrete text representation of a field in a form and it is an important indicator for value localization.",
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"text": "(2020) propose a representation learning method that takes field and value candidates as inputs and utilizes metric learning techniques to enforce high pairing score for positive field-value pairs and low score for negative ones. LayoutLM (Xu et al., 2020 ) is a pretrained transformer that takes both text and their locations as inputs. It can be used as a field-tagger which predicts field tags for input texts. These methods show promising results, but they require large amount of field-level annotations for training. Acquiring field-level annotations of forms is challenging and sometimes even impossible since (1) forms usually contain sensitive information, so there is limited public data available; (2) working with external annotators is also infeasible, due to the risk of exposing private information and (3) annotating field-level labels is time-consuming and hard to scale.",
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"raw_text": "Le Xue, Mingfei Gao, Zeyuan Chen, Caiming Xiong, and Ran Xu. 2021. Robustness evaluation of transformer-based form field extractors via form at- tacks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.04413.",
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