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Peppercorn Dataset
Vietnamese + English training data for a small document VLM. The data covers seven tasks: page parsing (Markdown plus layout boxes), tables, formulas, charts, key information extraction (KIE) and VQA.
| Parsing pages | 1,495,135: VI 816,724 · EN 678,411 |
| Task rows | 8,368,061: train 8,259,714 · dev 50,235 · bench 58,112 |
| Augmented views | 568,134: scan-style 510,145 · photo 57,989 |
| Images | ~6.9M: page images 2.07M (pages + views) · task images 4,879,988 (VI 543,982 · EN 4,336,936) |
| Size | ~1.1 TB (tar shards + JSONL) |
Download by part
You do not need the whole 1.1 TB. Use download.py from this repository:
hf auth login # gated: request access first
python download.py --list # parts and sizes
python download.py meta # index, mixes, candidates, card (small)
python download.py rows --source cord,mcocr # task rows of some sources
python download.py row-images --source cord --extract # only the image tars those rows need
python download.py parsing --lang vi # parsing shards of VI pools (or --pool cc_pdf_vi,idl)
python download.py augment --pool pdfa_lighton2 # augmented views; augment-photo for G3
python download.py bench --extract # benchmarks; raw-sources for raw VI task data
| Part | Size | What |
|---|---|---|
| meta | ~2 GB | index, mixes, candidates.jsonl, curation and dedup lists, card |
| rows | 8.9 GB | task rows (JSONL) |
| row-images | 196 GB | images of the task rows (297 tars) |
| parsing | 629 GB | parsing page shards |
| augment | 155 GB | scan-style views |
| augment-photo | 17 GB | photo views (G3) |
| bench | 24 GB | benchmarks |
| raw-sources | 12 GB | raw VI task sources |
| wip | 4.2 GB | planned jobs, not training rows yet: VQA pilot + consensus votes (wip/README.md) |
Curation workflow
What is inside
| Task | Output | Main sources |
|---|---|---|
| Page parsing | Markdown, HTML tables, LaTeX; optional layout boxes  |
VI web PDFs and scans, VI public sets, LightOnOCR-mix (pdfa), DocLayNet, IDL, olmOCR-mix, own renders |
| Table | HTML | PubTabNet, VI table crops, VI table VQA |
| Formula | LaTeX | SynthFormulaNet, UniMER, VI formula crops |
| Chart | HTML table | SynthChartNet, CoSyn, VI chart sets |
| KIE | JSON filled from a typed template | own VI renders (receipts, forms, purchase notes), CORD, MC-OCR (dev / bench) |
| VQA | short answer | VI and EN VQA sets (tables, charts, infographics, text) |
Real vs synthetic
- Synthetic: own renders (receipts, forms, charts, tables, math, short and dense pages) and synthetic public sets. Their labels are exact.
- Real: web PDFs, scans and public datasets. Labels come from a human ground truth, from the PDF text layer, or from teacher reads (LightOnOCR-3 4B / 0.8B).
Parsing pages
Lengths and training mix
Mix (outputs/p1vi/mix_v2.json):
- a target share for each task × language;
- inside a group, sources are weighted by √rows × quality;
- each source repeats at most 5 times;
- parsing pages take 32 % of draws, and layout boxes are asked for on 45 % of them.
Augment
| Recipe | What it does | Views |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | print / photocopy: low ink, show-through, binarize, dust | 510,145 in total (corpus/v3_shards/aug/) |
| P2 | capture: blur, rescale, JPEG | |
| G1 | skew + zoom (+ light P2) | |
| G2 | page curl, warp, lens, shading | |
| R90 | 90° / 270° rotation (text-only targets) | |
| G3 | photo of a page: oblique, screen recapture, wrinkle, hard shadow | 57,989 (corpus/v3_shards_g3/img/g3_*) |
- Labels follow the parent page. Layout boxes are moved with the geometry, and views that push boxes off the page are rejected.
- All probabilities are in
corpus/v3_shards/aug.yaml.aug_parents.txtlists the parent of every view. - G3 views have their own
index.jsonand enter the mix asg3_*pools (mix_a3_g3.yaml).
Samples
Full prompts and targets for every sample: samples.json.
Layout
corpus/p1vi/rows/<source>/*.jsonl task rows: id, task, lang, split, images, prompt, target, licence, label_origin
corpus/p1vi/img_tars/img-*.tar row images (path = rows[].images[i]); .tsv lists members
corpus/v3_shards/img/*.tar parsing pages: <key>.jpg + <key>.json (text, grounding, source, licence, teacher)
corpus/v3_shards/index.json shard list
outputs/p1/pool_all/candidates.jsonl ready parsing pages with byte offsets into the shards
corpus/v3_shards/aug/, corpus/v3_shards_g3/ augmented views (see Augment)
bench_tars/, raw_task_sources_tars/ benchmarks and raw VI task sources (tar + .tsv)
outputs/p1vi/mix_v2.json training mix
wip/ planned jobs: VQA pilot, consensus votes (not in the mix)
import glob, json
row = json.loads(open(sorted(glob.glob("corpus/p1vi/rows/cord/train-*.jsonl"))[0]).readline())
# image: extract rows' images from corpus/p1vi/img_tars (members are named img/<sha256[:2]>/<sha256>.<ext>)
page = json.loads(open("outputs/p1/pool_all/candidates.jsonl").readline())
with open("corpus/v3_shards/" + page["shard"], "rb") as f:
f.seek(page["json"][0]); meta = json.loads(f.read(page["json"][1])) # label
f.seek(page["img"][0]); img = f.read(page["img"][1]) # image bytes
Held-out data and decontamination
- The dev and bench splits are never trained on. Benchmarks: OmniDocBench (EN), olmOCR-bench, SEA-Vision VI, MDPBench, VI dev / test, and MC-OCR VI KIE.
- Train rows are removed when they match a benchmark: exact sha256, dHash near-duplicate checked against pixels, or a text signature (MC-OCR receipts).
- Near-duplicate clusters are capped. Rule filters drop empty, too-long or garbled labels and bad fallback reads.
Licences
Every row and page carries a license field from its source. Some sources are non-commercial or research-only. Use the data for research and check each source's terms.
Planned (not in this release)
Only local models whose licences allow training on their outputs. Every new row will keep the model name, version and prompt id.
VQA on our own pages (VI + EN)
- A local Qwen3.8-27B (FP8, non-thinking) reads the page transcript and writes 8 QA pairs per page: extract, lookup, reason and explain.
- An extract answer must appear verbatim on the page; pairs that fail this check are dropped.
- Pilot (in this release, not yet rows): 1,210 pages, 8,707 QA pairs (VI 999 pages, EN 211) in
wip/vqa_pilot/. Full run: ~24k pages.
Consensus voting: several readers label the same page, and only what they agree on is kept. The first extra voter is done and is in wip/consensus/: OvisOCR3 reads of 40.6k pages (plain + boxes, with log-probs) and its boxes on 68k EN scans, matched against the current boxes.
| Target | Voters | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Parsing of weak VI pages | OvisOCR3, LightOnOCR-3, PDF text layer | the medoid read (closest to the others) |
| Layout boxes | OvisOCR3 structured output vs the current boxes | boxes both agree on (IoU match) |
| KIE on real forms, invoices, receipts | local Qwen with the typed template, 2 samples | fields where the samples agree |
| Chart → table on real charts | local Qwen, 2 samples | cells where the samples agree |
Also planned
- VI formulas rendered from textbook LaTeX.
- Embedding dedup (SigLIP2 / DINOv2) to break template chains that dHash misses.
- Human-checked VI test sets.
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