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Main Authors: Zeng, Fanwei, Miao, Changtao, Huang, Jing, Tan, Zhiya, Gong, Shutao, Yu, Xiaoming, Wang, Yang, Yao, Weibin, Zhou, Joey Tianyi, Li, Jianshu, Yan, Yin
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02694
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author Zeng, Fanwei
Miao, Changtao
Huang, Jing
Tan, Zhiya
Gong, Shutao
Yu, Xiaoming
Wang, Yang
Yao, Weibin
Zhou, Joey Tianyi
Li, Jianshu
Yan, Yin
author_facet Zeng, Fanwei
Miao, Changtao
Huang, Jing
Tan, Zhiya
Gong, Shutao
Yu, Xiaoming
Wang, Yang
Yao, Weibin
Zhou, Joey Tianyi
Li, Jianshu
Yan, Yin
contents The rapid progress of generative AI has enabled increasingly realistic text-centric image forgeries, posing major challenges to document safety. Existing forensic methods mainly rely on visual cues and lack evidence-based reasoning to reveal subtle text manipulations. Detection, localization, and explanation are often treated as isolated tasks, limiting reliability and interpretability. To tackle these challenges, we propose DocShield, the first unified framework formulating text-centric forgery analysis as a visual-logical co-reasoning problem. At its core, a novel Cross-Cues-aware Chain of Thought (CCT) mechanism enables implicit agentic reasoning, iteratively cross-validating visual anomalies with textual semantics to produce consistent, evidence-grounded forensic analysis. We further introduce a Weighted Multi-Task Reward for GRPO-based optimization, aligning reasoning structure, spatial evidence, and authenticity prediction. Complementing the framework, we construct RealText-V1, a multilingual dataset of document-like text images with pixel-level manipulation masks and expert-level textual explanations. Extensive experiments show DocShield significantly outperforms existing methods, improving macro-average F1 by 41.4% over specialized frameworks and 23.4% over GPT-4o on T-IC13, with consistent gains on the challenging T-SROIE benchmark. Our dataset, model, and code will be publicly released.
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spellingShingle DocShield: Towards AI Document Safety via Evidence-Grounded Agentic Reasoning
Zeng, Fanwei
Miao, Changtao
Huang, Jing
Tan, Zhiya
Gong, Shutao
Yu, Xiaoming
Wang, Yang
Yao, Weibin
Zhou, Joey Tianyi
Li, Jianshu
Yan, Yin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
I.4.9; K.6.5; I.2.7
The rapid progress of generative AI has enabled increasingly realistic text-centric image forgeries, posing major challenges to document safety. Existing forensic methods mainly rely on visual cues and lack evidence-based reasoning to reveal subtle text manipulations. Detection, localization, and explanation are often treated as isolated tasks, limiting reliability and interpretability. To tackle these challenges, we propose DocShield, the first unified framework formulating text-centric forgery analysis as a visual-logical co-reasoning problem. At its core, a novel Cross-Cues-aware Chain of Thought (CCT) mechanism enables implicit agentic reasoning, iteratively cross-validating visual anomalies with textual semantics to produce consistent, evidence-grounded forensic analysis. We further introduce a Weighted Multi-Task Reward for GRPO-based optimization, aligning reasoning structure, spatial evidence, and authenticity prediction. Complementing the framework, we construct RealText-V1, a multilingual dataset of document-like text images with pixel-level manipulation masks and expert-level textual explanations. Extensive experiments show DocShield significantly outperforms existing methods, improving macro-average F1 by 41.4% over specialized frameworks and 23.4% over GPT-4o on T-IC13, with consistent gains on the challenging T-SROIE benchmark. Our dataset, model, and code will be publicly released.
title DocShield: Towards AI Document Safety via Evidence-Grounded Agentic Reasoning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
I.4.9; K.6.5; I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02694