Open Annotations and Synthetic Data for Field Localisation in Indian Bank Cheques

arXiv:2606.20682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated cheque processing requires localising key fields (date, legal amount, IFSC code, account number, signature, and payee name) before any recognition step. The IDRBT Cheque Image Dataset is, to our knowledge, the only public collection of Indian bank cheques, but it ships without field annotations and with no stated licence, so its redistribution terms are unclear. We address both limitations. First, we release six-field bounding-box annotat...