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New benchmark PorTEXTO targets European Portuguese visual text extraction

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Researchers have introduced PorTEXTO, a new benchmark designed to improve visual text extraction for European Portuguese (pt-PT). This benchmark addresses the scarcity of resources for pt-PT in existing optical character recognition (OCR) benchmarks, which often focus on high-resource languages or historical texts. PorTEXTO utilizes a pipeline that combines transcriptions from a large language model with human review by native speakers to ensure quality and relevance for contemporary applications. The study found that specialized multilingual data is more effective for pt-PT OCR performance than model size or resolution, highlighting the need for open pt-PT OCR resources. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could improve AI model performance for European Portuguese text extraction, enabling better applications in regions where this language is spoken.

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New benchmark PorTEXTO targets European Portuguese visual text extraction

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · João Magalhães ·

    PorTEXTO: A European Portuguese Benchmark for Visual Text Extraction

    European Portuguese (pt-PT) is largely absent from OCR benchmarks, which skew toward high-resource languages. The few benchmarks that cover pt-PT focus on historical artifacts and literature. This work addresses modern OCR applications, introducing PorTEXTO, the first benchmark f…

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