arXiv:2608.25140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing approaches to building line-level Arabic handwritten-text-recognition (HTR) training data either rely on fully manual annotation, which does not scale, or on automatic OCR-to-reference alignment methods not yet extended t…
arXiv:2608.22366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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 OC…
arXiv:2608.22316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whether an intermediate stage of modern Arabic handwriting helps or hurts historical Arabic HTR is usually decided from one implementation and one comparison, too thin a basis for a claim either way. We test stability by running t…