ICDAR2026 Competition on Multimodal Reasoning over Documents in Multiple Domains

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arXiv:2609.25055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this report we present results of the ICDAR2026 Competition on Multimodal Reasoning over Documents in Multiple Domains. This competition aimed to advance research in document understanding through the task of Visual Question Answering (VQA). Building upon previous DocVQA benchmarks, this competition introduces challenging reasoning questions over a diverse collection of documents spanning eight domains, including business reports, scientific pap