IRPAPERS Explained!

AI systems have achieved remarkable success in processing text and relational data, however, visual document processing remains relatively underexplored. Whereas traditional systems require OCR transcriptions to convert these visual documents into text and metadata, recent advances in multimodal foundation models offer an alternative path: retrieval and generation directly from document images. This raises a timely and important question: How do image-based systems compare to established text-based methods? To answer this question, we present IRPAPERS, a benchmark totaling 3,230 pages source…