LV-ROVER-MLT: Low-Resource Maltese OCR by Synthetic Fine-Tuning and Multi-Stream Arbitration
Maltese has substantial text corpora and pretrained language models, but paragraph-scale OCR training data remains scarce; NOMOCRAT provides 57 verified annotated pages. LV-ROVER-MLT combines synthetic fine-tuning of Tesseract~5 with five complementary recognition streams and lexicon-gated word-level arbitration adapte...