2 papers
cs.CV2026
Error Patterns in Historical OCR: A Comparative Analysis of TrOCR and a Vision-Language Model
Ari Vesalainen, Eetu Mäkelä, Laura Ruotsalainen +1
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of eighteenth-century printed texts remains challenging due to degraded print quality, archaic glyphs, and non-standardized orthography. Althoug…
cs.CL2025
Detecting Latin in Historical Books with Large Language Models: A Multimodal Benchmark
Yu Wu, Ke Shu, Jonas Fischer +4
This paper presents a novel task of extracting low-resourced and noisy Latin fragments from mixed-language historical documents with varied layouts. We benchmark and evaluate the p…