Datasets:
| license: apache-2.0 | |
| task_categories: | |
| - object-detection | |
| tags: | |
| - document-intelligence | |
| - form-field-detection | |
| - multilingual | |
| # 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](https://huggingface.co/papers/2509.16506). | |
| 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](https://huggingface.co/papers/2509.16506) | |
| **Code:** [https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms](https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms) |