layoutlm.rst

LayoutLM
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Overview
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The LayoutLM model was proposed in the paper `LayoutLM: Pre-training of Text and Layout for Document Image
Understanding <https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13318>`__ by Yiheng Xu, Minghao Li, Lei Cui, Shaohan Huang, Furu Wei, and
Ming Zhou. It's a simple but effective pretraining method of text and layout for document image understanding and
information extraction tasks, such as form understanding and receipt understanding.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*Pre-training techniques have been verified successfully in a variety of NLP tasks in recent years. Despite the
widespread use of pretraining models for NLP applications, they almost exclusively focus on text-level manipulation,
while neglecting layout and style information that is vital for document image understanding. In this paper, we propose
the \textbf{LayoutLM} to jointly model interactions between text and layout information across scanned document images,
which is beneficial for a great number of real-world document image understanding tasks such as information extraction
from scanned documents. Furthermore, we also leverage image features to incorporate words' visual information into
LayoutLM. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that text and layout are jointly learned in a single
framework for document-level pretraining. It achieves new state-of-the-art results in several downstream tasks,
including form understanding (from 70.72 to 79.27), receipt understanding (from 94.02 to 95.24) and document image
classification (from 93.07 to 94.42).*

Tips:

- LayoutLM has an extra input called :obj:`bbox`, which is the bounding boxes of the input tokens.
- The :obj:`bbox` requires the data that on 0-1000 scale, which means you should normalize the bounding box before
  passing them into model.

The original code can be found `here <https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/master/layoutlm>`_.


LayoutLMConfig
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.. autoclass:: transformers.LayoutLMConfig
    :members:


LayoutLMTokenizer
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.. autoclass:: transformers.LayoutLMTokenizer
    :members:


LayoutLMModel
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.. autoclass:: transformers.LayoutLMModel
    :members:


LayoutLMForMaskedLM
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.. autoclass:: transformers.LayoutLMForMaskedLM
    :members:


LayoutLMForTokenClassification
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.. autoclass:: transformers.LayoutLMForTokenClassification
    :members: