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| author | Sarawgi, Anjali Arias, Esteban Garces Zotter, Christof |
| author_facet | Sarawgi, Anjali Arias, Esteban Garces Zotter, Christof |
| contents | This paper presents the first end-to-end pipeline for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Old Nepali, a historically significant but low-resource language. We adopt a line-level transcription approach and systematically explore encoder-decoder architectures and data-centric techniques to improve recognition accuracy. Our best model achieves a Character Error Rate (CER) of 4.9\%. In addition, we implement and evaluate decoding strategies and analyze token-level confusions to better understand model behavior and error patterns. Although the evaluation dataset is confidential, we release our training code, model configurations, and evaluation scripts to support further research on HTR for low-resource historical scripts. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Digitizing Nepal's Written Heritage: A Comprehensive HTR Pipeline for Old Nepali Manuscripts Sarawgi, Anjali Arias, Esteban Garces Zotter, Christof Machine Learning This paper presents the first end-to-end pipeline for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Old Nepali, a historically significant but low-resource language. We adopt a line-level transcription approach and systematically explore encoder-decoder architectures and data-centric techniques to improve recognition accuracy. Our best model achieves a Character Error Rate (CER) of 4.9\%. In addition, we implement and evaluate decoding strategies and analyze token-level confusions to better understand model behavior and error patterns. Although the evaluation dataset is confidential, we release our training code, model configurations, and evaluation scripts to support further research on HTR for low-resource historical scripts. |
| title | Digitizing Nepal's Written Heritage: A Comprehensive HTR Pipeline for Old Nepali Manuscripts |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17111 |