Semantic Document Derendering: SVG Reconstruction via Vision-Language Modeling
Multimedia documents such as slide presentations and posters are designed to be interactive and easy to modify. Yet, they are often distributed in a static raster format, which limits editing and customization. Restoring their editability requires converting these raster images back into structured vector formats. However, existing geometric raster vectorization methods, which rely on low-level primitives like curves and polygons, fall short at this task. Specifically, when applied to complex documents like slides, they fail to preserve the high-level structure, resulting in a flat collection of shapes where the semantic distinction between image and text elements is lost. To overcome this limitation, we address the problem of semantic document derendering by introducing SliDer, a novel framework that uses Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to derender slide images as compact and editable Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) representations. SliDer detects and extracts the attributes from individual image and text elements in a raster input and organizes them into a coherent SVG format. Crucially, the model iteratively refines its predictions during inference in a process analogous to human design, generating SVG code that more faithfully reconstructs the original raster upon rendering. Furthermore, we introduce Slide2SVG, a novel dataset comprising raster-SVG pairs of slide documents curated from real-world scientific presentations, to facilitate future research in this domain. Our results demonstrate that SliDer achieves a reconstruction LPIPS of 0.069, and is favored by human evaluators in 82.9% of cases compared to the strongest zero-shot VLM baseline.
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Hazimeh, A., Wang, K., Collier, M., Baechler, G., Kokiopoulou, E., & Frossard, P. (2026). Semantic Document Derendering: SVG Reconstruction via Vision-Language Modeling. In S. Koenig, C. Jenkins, & M. E. Taylor (Editors), Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i6.42464
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2026
978-1-57735-906-7
Proceedings of the ... AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; 40
2374-3468
2159-5399
6
4636
4644
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EPFL
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