Add end-to-end document-question-answering inference and eval contract

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Summary

winml eval does not support the exact document-question-answering task contract. LayoutLM v1 document-QA models expose an extractive span head (input_ids, OCR-derived bbox, attention_mask, token_type_ids → start_logits, end_logits), but end-to-end task evaluation also requires OCR, word/box normalization and token alignment, answer-span decoding, and a document-QA dataset/metric adapter.

Current behavior

winml eval --schema --task document-question-answering
Error: Unsupported task 'document-question-answering'.

The generic inference task registry describes image + question inputs, but checkpoints such as DmitrySpartak/layoutlm-invoices have a tokenizer only and consume pre-tokenized OCR/layout tensors; they do not accept a PDF or image directly.

Desired behavior

Define an explicit document-QA inference/evaluation contract that:

• preserves document-question-answering rather than silently substituting plain question-answering;
• supplies or integrates OCR and normalized bounding-box preprocessing;
• aligns question/document tokens and boxes;
• decodes start_logits / end_logits to answer spans;
• provides a representative dataset and task metric schema;
• handles architecture differences such as LayoutLMv1 (text + boxes) versus LayoutLMv3 (text + boxes + pixels).

Scope note

This is separate from ONNX exporter registration tracked by #134. Export/build/perf can work on prepared tensors without providing an end-to-end document image-to-answer pipeline.

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Triage screening (2026-07-20)

Classified as Feature (enhancement, model / task scale).
This adds a new document-question-answering inference/eval contract with OCR preprocessing, token alignment, and answer-span decoding.

No bugs identified — routed to backlog for prioritization.