Midv-679 May 2026

Overview MIDV-679 is a widely used dataset for document recognition tasks (ID cards, passports, driver’s licenses, etc.). This tutorial walks you from understanding the dataset through practical experiments: preprocessing, synthetic augmentation, layout analysis, OCR, and evaluation. It’s designed for researchers and engineers who want to build robust document understanding pipelines. Assumptions: you’re comfortable with Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, and basic computer vision; you have a GPU available for training.