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Aug 2026
When Do VLMs Help Arabic Manuscript OCR? A Cross-Dataset Study
Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly being used for document understanding, yet their role in Arabic and Islamic manuscript recognition remains underexplored. To address such a gap in this paper, we evaluate traditional OCR, general-purpose VLMs, Arabic-specialized VLMs, and OCR-conditioned VLM correction acr...
M. Farazi, Firoj Alam, A. Maaradji et al.
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