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Text Selection Is Still the Hardest Click
PointerBench adds 1,500 pixel-exact tasks across spreadsheets, long documents and one hundred professional applications.
Summary
PointerBench adds 1,500 pixel-exact tasks across spreadsheets, long documents and one hundred professional applications.
Frontier multimodal systems performed far better on the aggregate suite than on character-level long-text grounding. The authors report 69.6 percent for the leading tested model on the text subset, while specialist grounding systems trailed further. The benchmark is diagnostic and does not measure complete workflow success.
Why it matters
PointerBench adds 1,500 pixel-exact tasks across spreadsheets, long documents and one hundred professional applications.
Limits and context
- The benchmark is diagnostic and does not measure complete workflow success.
Key claims
PointerBench adds 1,500 pixel-exact tasks across spreadsheets, long documents and one hundred professional applications.
Qualification: The benchmark is diagnostic and does not measure complete workflow success.
Evidence: source-2026-10-24-017
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2610.31274, original v1arXiv · primary research
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