Infogen: Generating Complex Statistical Infographics from Documents

Statistical infographics are powerful tools that simplify complex data into visually engaging and easy-to-understand formats. Despite advancements in AI, particularly with LLMs, existing efforts have been limited to generating simple charts, with no prior work addressing the creation of complex infographics from textheavy documents that demand a deep understanding of the content. We address this gap by introducing the task of generating statistical infographics composed of multiple subcharts (e.g., line, bar, pie) that are contextually accurate, insightful, and visually aligned. To achieve this, we define infographic metadata, that includes its title and textual insights, along with sub-chart-specific details such as their corresponding data, alignment, etc. We also present Infodat, the first benchmark dataset for text-to-infographic metadata generation, where each sample links a document to its metadata. We propose Infogen, a two-stage framework where fine-tuned LLMs first generate metadata, which is then converted into infographic code. Extensive evaluations on Infodat demonstrate that Infogen achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming both closed and opensource LLMs in text-to-statistical infographic generation. The sample datapoints from Infodat can be accessed through this link * Work done during internship at Adobe Research. 1 While the term infographic can refer to a wide range of visual illustrations, we restrict ourselves to only those visuals