CommonForms: A Large, Diverse Dataset for Form Field Detection

This repository hosts the CommonForms dataset, a web-scale dataset for form field detection, introduced in the paper CommonForms: A Large, Diverse Dataset for Form Field Detection.

CommonForms casts the problem of form field detection as object detection: given an image of a page, predict the location and type (Text Input, Choice Button, Signature) of form fields.

Key Features:

• Scale: Roughly 55,000 documents comprising over 450,000 pages.
• Source: Constructed by filtering Common Crawl to find PDFs with fillable elements.
• Diversity: Contains a diverse mixture of languages (one third non-English) and domains, with no single domain making up more than 25% of the dataset.
• Purpose: The first large-scale dataset released for form field detection, aimed at fostering the development of robust form field detectors.

Paper: CommonForms: A Large, Diverse Dataset for Form Field Detection Code: https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms