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Automated pipeline for herbarium label digitization

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Digitized herbarium collections, now comprising over 100 million freely accessible specimen images, have become a critical resource for addressing fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology. Yet the rich metadata encoded in herbarium labels (collector identities, geographic localities, collection dates, and ecological observations) remains largely inaccessible at scale, constraining both biodiversity informatics and the construction of specimen-specific image-text corpora for multimodal AI. We present HERBIOME, a modular end-to-end pipeline for automated herbarium label digitiza

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