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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Visual Document Understanding(also: VDU, Document Understanding)
A field of AI research focused on the interpretation and analysis of visually-rich digital documents such as forms, tables, menus, reports, receipts, and academic papers. Visual document understanding goes beyond basic OCR text extraction by comprehending the spatial layout,…
Visual Layout Analysis(also: Layout Analysis, Document Layout Analysis)
The automated process of examining the spatial arrangement and visual properties of elements within a document to infer meaningful structural relationships between them. In accessibility contexts, visual layout analysis is used to automatically generate metadata about how…

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