Making Old Kurdish Publications Processable by Augmenting Available Optical Character Recognition Engines

arXiv:2404.06101v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Kurdish libraries have many historical publications that were printed back in the early days when printing devices were brought to Kurdistan. Having a good Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to help process these publications and contribute to the Kurdish languages resources which is crucial as Kurdish is considered a low-resource language. Current OCR systems are unable to extract text from historical documents as they have many issues, including being damaged, very fragile, having many marks left …

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