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KhatianDoc: A Human-Verified Benchmark Diagnosing Multimodal LLM Failure on Bengali Legal Land Records

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 3, 2026 · UTC

Land ownership in Bangladesh is recorded in Ana-Ganda-Kora-Kranti-Til, a base-16 positional fraction system with dedicated Unicode glyphs, no mainstream font, and no coverage in any OCR pipeline or tokenizer. The handwritten records that carry these fractions, RS Khatians, are the authoritative title record for millions of parcels and a frequent subject of civil litigation, yet no benchmark has asked whether a machine can read one. We introduce KhatianDoc, a four-task benchmark built from 107 real RS Khatian records from the Vumi (land) Office of Munshiganj, Bangladesh: symbol recognition, bas

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