ocr-freeform-survey

Notes on OCR Freeform

Repository summary

This repository contains a working research note about OCR Freeform. It organizes motivation, related work, a falsifiable hypothesis, and an evaluation plan. It is not presented as a completed paper or a release of trained models.

What is covered

• the scope of the research question and likely confounders
• a proposed comparison with matched baselines
• concrete evaluation context such as FUNSD, SROIE, and CORD
• reproducibility checks, failure modes, and open questions
• topic-relevant references

How to read this repository

Start with review.md for the full note. Sections labeled as plans or hypotheses should not be interpreted as experimental results. If results are added later, they should include dataset versions, commands, seeds, hardware, and raw logs.

Scope and limitations

The note is intentionally exploratory. It does not claim benchmark improvements, completed ablations, released code, or a trained checkpoint. References and proposed datasets provide a starting point for verification rather than evidence that the study has already been run.

Files

• review.md — primary artifact
• README.md — this documentation

License

Released under cc-by-4.0. Review the source-data terms separately when this repository is used with external datasets.