Do MLLMs Really Understand Low-Resource Khmer Documents? A Pilot Study on Khmer Document VQA
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Sinhala is a morphologically rich abugida spoken by roughly 16 million people in Sri Lanka, and to date, there are no publicly available real-world datasets for page-level Sinhala OCR. All previous studies for assessing Sinhala OCR models have used artificially generated data.
The paper introduces a unified model that jointly performs Khmer text recognition and word segmentation, eliminating the need for a separate segmentation step. Using a connectionist-temporal-classification decoder, the model can be instructed to output Khmer text with or without word boundaries. Experiments across document, scene, and handwritten image datasets demonstrate that the model accurately recognizes characters and locates word boundaries, reducing error and latency compared to traditional sequential pipelines.
arXiv:2608.21365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As a low-resource language, Khmer presents several retrieval challenges, including limited annotated data, ambiguous word boundaries, weak support in...