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Main Authors: Sinha, Nivedita, Khanijo, Bharati, Singh, Sanskar, Mahant, Priyansh, Roy, Ashutosh, Bhadouria, Saubhagya Singh, Jain, Arpan, Ramanath, Maya
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05667
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author Sinha, Nivedita
Khanijo, Bharati
Singh, Sanskar
Mahant, Priyansh
Roy, Ashutosh
Bhadouria, Saubhagya Singh
Jain, Arpan
Ramanath, Maya
author_facet Sinha, Nivedita
Khanijo, Bharati
Singh, Sanskar
Mahant, Priyansh
Roy, Ashutosh
Bhadouria, Saubhagya Singh
Jain, Arpan
Ramanath, Maya
contents In this paper, we describe a multi-modal search system designed to search old archaeological books and reports. This corpus is digitally available as scanned PDFs, but varies widely in the quality of scans. Our pipeline, designed for multi-modal archaeological documents, extracts and indexes text, images (classified into maps, photos, layouts, and others), and tables. We evaluated different retrieval strategies, including keyword-based search, embedding-based models, and a hybrid approach that selects optimal results from both modalities. We report and analyze our preliminary results and discuss future work in this exciting vertical.
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spellingShingle SARCH: Multimodal Search for Archaeological Archives
Sinha, Nivedita
Khanijo, Bharati
Singh, Sanskar
Mahant, Priyansh
Roy, Ashutosh
Bhadouria, Saubhagya Singh
Jain, Arpan
Ramanath, Maya
Information Retrieval
In this paper, we describe a multi-modal search system designed to search old archaeological books and reports. This corpus is digitally available as scanned PDFs, but varies widely in the quality of scans. Our pipeline, designed for multi-modal archaeological documents, extracts and indexes text, images (classified into maps, photos, layouts, and others), and tables. We evaluated different retrieval strategies, including keyword-based search, embedding-based models, and a hybrid approach that selects optimal results from both modalities. We report and analyze our preliminary results and discuss future work in this exciting vertical.
title SARCH: Multimodal Search for Archaeological Archives
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05667