A comprehensive list of awesome document image rectification methods based on deep learning.

Table of contents

• Papers
• Datasets
• Demos

Papers

Year	Venue	Title	Repo	Result
2018	CVPR	DocUNet: Document Image Unwarping via A Stacked U-Net
2019	TOG	Document Rectification and Illumination Correction using a Patch-based CNN*	Code
2019	ICCV	DewarpNet: Single-Image Document Unwarping With Stacked 3D and 2D Regression Networks	Code	Link
2020	PR	Geometric Rectification of Document Images using Adversarial Gated Unwarping Network
2020	CVPR	BEDSR-Net: A Deep Shadow Removal Network From a Single Document Image*
2020	ECCV	Can You Read Me Now? Content Aware Rectification using Angle Supervision
2020	DAS	Dewarping Document Image by Displacement Flow Estimation with Fully Convolutional Network	Code
2020	BMVC	Intrinsic Decomposition of Document Images In-the-wild*	Code
2021	ACM MM	DocTr: Document Image Transformer for Geometric Unwarping and Illumination Correction*	Code	Link
2021	ICCV	End-to-end Piece-wise Unwarping of Document Images	Code
2021	ICDAR	Document Dewarping with Control Points	Code
2022	CVPR	Fourier Document Restoration for Robust Document Dewarping and Recognition
2022	CVPR	Revisiting Document Image Dewarping by Grid Regularization		Link
2022	ACM MM	Marior: Margin Removal and Iterative Content Rectification for Document Dewarping in the Wild		Link
2022	ACM MM	UDoc-GAN: Unpaired Document Illumination Correction with Background Light Prior*	Code
2022	SIGGRAPH	Learning From Documents in the Wild to Improve Document Unwarping	Code	Link
2022	ECCV	Geometric Representation Learning for Document Image Rectification	Code	Link
2022	ECCV	Learning an Isometric Surface Parameterization for Texture Unwrapping	Code
2022	ICPR	Document Image Rectification in Complex Scene Using Stacked Siamese Networks
2023	arXiv	Geometric Rectification of Creased Document Images based on Isometric Mapping
2023	IJDAR	Adaptive Dewarping of Severely Warped Camera-captured Document Images Based on Document Map Generation
2023	TMM	Deep Unrestricted Document Image Rectification	Code
2023	IJDAR	Inv3D: A High-resolution 3D Invoice Dataset for Template-guided Single-image Document Unwarping	Code
2023	arXiv	DocAligner: Annotating Real-world Photographic Document Images by Simply Taking Pictures	Code
2023	arXiv	MataDoc: Margin and Text Aware Document Dewarping for Arbitrary Boundary
2023	ICCVW	Template-guided Illumination Correction for Document Images with Imperfect Geometric Reconstruction	Code
2023	ICCV	Foreground and Text-lines Aware Document Image Rectification	Code
2023	TAI	Appearance Enhancement for Camera-captured Document Images in the Wild*	Code
2023	ACM TOG	Layout-Aware Single-Image Document Flatening	Code	Link
2023	WACV	DocReal: Robust Document Dewarping of Real-Life Images via Attention-Enhanced Control Point Prediction	Code
2023	TCSVT	Rethinking Supervision in Document Unwarping: A Self-consistent Flow-free Approach
2023	SIGGRAPH	UVDoc: Neural Grid-based Document Unwarping	Code
2023	arXiv	Polar-Doc: One-Stage Document Dewarping with Multi-Scope Constraints under Polar Representation
2024	ACM MM	Document Registration: Towards Automated Labeling of Pixel-Level Alignment Between Warped-Flat Documents
2024	AAAI	DocNLC: A Document Image Enhancement Framework with Normalized and Latent Contrastive Representation for Multiple Degradations	Code
2024	ICPR	DocHFormer: Document Image Dewarping via Harmonized Modeling of Hierarchical Priors
2024	CVPR	DocRes: a generalist model toward unifying document image restoration tasks	Code
2025	IJCV	DocScanner: Robust Document Image Rectification with Progressive Learning	Code	Link
2025	WACV	DocMatcher: Document Image Dewarping via Structural and Textual Line Matching	Code
2025	ICDAR	DAA-Net: Dynamic Adaptive Aggregation Network for Document Image Rectification
2025	ACM MM	Uni-DocDiff: A Unified Document Restoration Model Based on Diffusion
2025	CVPR	Document Image Rectification using Stable Diffusion Transformer
2025	SIGGRAPH	DvD: Unleashing a Generative Paradigm for Document Dewarping via Coordinates-based Diffusion Model	Code
2025	ICCV	ForCenNet: Foreground-Centric Network for Document Image Rectification	Code
2025	arXiv	TADoc: Robust Time-Aware Document Image Dewarping
2026	arXiv	BookNet: Book Image Rectification via Cross-Page Attention Network
2026	AAAI	Axis-Aligned Document Dewarping	Code	Link
2026	TMM	Cascaded Robust Rectification for Arbitrary Document Images	Code	Link
2026	PR	AFH-Net: An Adaptive Feature Harmonization Network for Document Image De-warping

• The results are the rectified images on the DocUNet Benchmark Dataset.
• The "*" means that the work involves the illumination correction for document images.

Datasets

Year	Venue	Title	Type	Link
2018	CVPR	DocUNet: Document Image Unwarping via A Stacked U-Net	Real	Dataset
2019	TOG	Document Rectification and Illumination Correction using a Patch-based CNN	Synthetic	Dataset
2019	ICCV	DewarpNet: Single-Image Document Unwarping With Stacked 3D and 2D Regression Networks	Synthetic	Dataset
2020	DAS	Dewarping Document Image by Displacement Flow Estimation with Fully Convolutional Network	Synthetic	Dataset
2021	ICDAR	Document Dewarping with Control Points	Synthetic	Dataset
2022	CVPR	Fourier Document Restoration for Robust Document Dewarping and Recognition	Real	Dataset
2022	SIGGRAPH	Learning From Documents in the Wild to Improve Document Unwarping	Real	Dataset
2022	ECCV	Geometric Representation Learning for Document Image Rectification	Real	Dataset
2022	ICBD	ADIU: An Antiquarian Document Image Unwarping Dataset	Both
2023	IJDAR	Adaptive Dewarping of Severely Warped Camera-captured Document Images Based on Document Map Generation	Real	Dataset
2023	TMM	Deep Unrestricted Document Image Rectification	Real	Dataset
2023	SIGGRAPH	UVDoc: Neural Grid-based Document Unwarping	Synthetic	Dataset
2023	arXiv	DocAligner: Annotating Real-world Photographic Document Images by Simply Taking Pictures	Real	Dataset
2023	IJDAR	Inv3D: A High-resolution 3D Invoice Dataset for Template-guided Single-image Document Unwarping	Synthetic	Dataset

Demos

Year	Name	Host	Type
2019	DewarpNet: Single-Image Document Unwarping With Stacked 3D and 2D Regression Networks		Online Demo
2021	DocTr: Document Image Transformer for Geometric Unwarping and Illumination Correction	huggingface	Online Demo
2022	DocGeoNet: Geometric Representation Learning for Document Image Rectification	huggingface	Online Demo
2022	dewarp	textin	Online Demo
2023	Deep Unrestricted Document Image Rectification	self-hosted	Online Demo
2023	Inv3D: GeoTrTemplate & IllTrTemplate	self-hosted	Online Demo

Acknowledgment

• This repository is scheduled to be updated regularly in accordance with schedules of major AI Conferences and Journals.