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RefLAM: A Reference-Grounded Line Annotation Pipeline for Historical Arabic Manuscripts

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

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 to multi-script, two-zone (main-plus-margin) manuscript layouts with a provable correctness guarantee. We present RefLAM (Reference-grounded Line Annotation for Manuscripts), a pipeline converting manuscript page images and clean transcriptions into validated, line-level ground truth without sacrificing human oversight. RefLAM couples a deep-learning page-segmentation

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