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title: Document Layout Detection
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license: mit
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# 📄 Document Layout, Table Structure & Signature Detection

A powerful AI-powered tool for automatically detecting document layout and structure, with an optional specialized handwritten signature detector.

## 🎯 What Does This Do?

This Space automatically analyzes your documents (PDFs, images, scanned documents) to:

- 🏷️ **Detect Layout Elements**: Identifies titles, headers, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, captions, formulas, and more
- 📊 **Extract Tables**: Recognizes table structures and extracts data
- 🖼️ **Visual Output**: Shows bounding boxes around detected elements with color-coded labels
- 📝 **Export Formats**: Provides Markdown, JSON, and visual outputs
- 🔍 **OCR Support**: Automatically processes scanned documents and images
 - ✍️ **Signature Detection**: Uses a fine-tuned YOLOv8s model to find handwritten signatures (overlay on layout view or run as a dedicated tool)

## 🚀 How to Use

1. **Upload** your document (PDF, JPG, PNG, etc.)
2. **Choose** processing mode:
   - **Fast**: Quick processing for simple documents
   - **Accurate**: Better quality for complex tables (slower)
3. **Configure** options:
   - Enable/disable OCR
   - Enable/disable table detection
4. **Process** and view results!

## 📚 Use Cases

Perfect for analyzing:
- 🆔 **ID Documents**: Aadhaar cards, passports, driver's licenses
- 📄 **Forms & Applications**: Government forms, surveys, questionnaires
- 🧾 **Invoices & Receipts**: Business documents with tables
- 📖 **Research Papers**: Academic documents with complex layouts
- 📊 **Reports**: Annual reports, financial statements
- 📰 **Articles & Documents**: Any structured document

## 🛠️ Technology

This Space uses state-of-the-art AI models:

- **Layout Model**: Advanced neural networks for document layout analysis
- **Table Structure Model**: TableFormer architecture for table detection and extraction
- **OCR Engine**: Integrated OCR for text recognition in scanned documents
- **Framework**: Modern document processing pipeline
- **Signature Model (Optional)**: Finetuned signature detector (tech4humans/yolov8s-signature-detector) from Hugging Face

## 🎨 Output Formats

### 1. Visual Visualization
- Bounding boxes drawn on the document
- Color-coded by element type
- Labels showing detected elements

### 2. Markdown Export
- Clean, structured text output
- Preserves document hierarchy
- Ready for further processing

### 3. JSON Data
- Complete layout predictions
- Bounding box coordinates
- Element types and confidence scores
- Machine-readable format

## 🌟 Features

This tool offers:
- Advanced AI models for layout detection
- Supports multiple input formats (PDF, images)
- Accurate table structure extraction
- Handles both digital and scanned documents
- Exports to various formats (Markdown, JSON)
- Fast and accurate processing modes

## 🚀 Deployment on Hugging Face Spaces

This app is ready to deploy on Hugging Face Spaces!

### Setup HF_TOKEN Secret

The signature detector model is gated and requires authentication:

1. Go to your Space settings: `Settings` → `Repository secrets`
2. Add a new secret:
   - **Name**: `HF_TOKEN`
   - **Value**: Your Hugging Face token (get it from https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens)
3. Click `Add Secret`

The app will automatically use this token to download the signature model on startup.

### Requirements

- SDK: Gradio 5.x
- Python: 3.11+
- Hardware: CPU (2 cores, 18GB RAM on Spaces)
- Runtime: ~2-3 minutes first load (model downloads), then ~1-3s per inference

All dependencies are in `requirements.txt` and will be installed automatically.

## 🧪 Local Testing

Want to test locally?

```bash
# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Set HF token (if signature model is gated)
export HF_TOKEN=hf_xxx

# Run the app locally
python app.py
```

### Test Scripts

```bash
# Test signature detection only
python test_signature.py

# Test full document analysis
python test_analyze.py
```

### Signature Detector Notes

- The signature model weights are hosted on Hugging Face (`tech4humans/yolov8s-signature-detector`)
- CPU inference is supported; no GPU required
- The app queues up to 2 concurrent jobs to align with Spaces CPU (2 cores)
- First run downloads ~12MB model checkpoint

## 📸 Examples

Signature-only examples live under `sample_signature/`. Try them in the "Signature Detection (Only)" tab.

### OCR Engine

- This app uses RapidOCR with the ONNX Runtime backend by default when OCR is enabled, for fast and accurate CPU inference.
- If ONNXRuntime is missing, Docling may fall back to other engines; this repo includes `onnxruntime` in `requirements.txt` and configures `RapidOcrOptions(backend="onnxruntime")` to enforce the preferred engine.

## 🤝 Contributing

Found a bug or have a suggestion? Feel free to open an issue or contribute!

## 📝 License

- App code: MIT License
- Signature weights: AGPL-3.0 (see the model card on Hugging Face). Using the model in a network service may require making corresponding source available per AGPL.

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