# DocMaster: A Hierarchical Structure-Aware System for Document Analysis

Source: [DocMaster: A Hierarchical Structure-Aware System for Document Analysis](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a507c8532fb937314876805>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-07-11T05:00:05.441Z

Authors: Ziqi Chen, Yingli Zhou, Fangyuan Zhang, Quanqing Xu, Chuanhui Yang, Yixiang Fang

Published: 2026-07-09T14:33:47.000Z

## Abstract

Leveraging large language models (LLMs) to analyze complex documents -- such as academic papers, technical manuals, and financial reports -- has emerged as a mainstream and critical task in both research and industry. In practice, users must first filter relevant documents from large collections and then conduct in-depth analysis (e.g. question answering) over the selected subset, yet existing systems flatten documents into plain-text chunks, discarding the rich hierarchical structures (sections, tables, figures, equations) and degrading downstream performance. We present DocMaster, a hierarchical structure-aware document analysis system. DocMaster parses documents into hierarchical document trees preserving original layouts and constructs a structure-aware semantic index that enables accurate document filtering and in-depth analysis. We demonstrate DocMaster through an interactive web interface that enables users to upload document collections, construct tree-based and multi-view semantic indices, filter relevant documents via natural-language conditions, and perform follow-up question answering over the filtered results. The source code, data, and demo are available at https://doc-master.github.io/.

## Recorded benchmark results

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08539>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.08539.pdf>)
