Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating document labels using positional embeddings. In an embodiment, a label system may identify tokens, such as words, of a document image. The label system may apply a position vector neural network to the document image to analyze the pixels and determine positional embedding vectors corresponding to the words. The label system may then combine the positional embedding vectors to corresponding word vectors for use as an input to a neural network trained to generate document labels. This combination may embed the positional information with the corresponding word information in a serialized manner for processing by the document label neural network. Using this formatting, the label system may generate document labels in a light-weight and fast manner while still preserving spatial relationships between words.