Hawraz A. Ahmad

Synthetic Data-Driven Transformer OCR for Kurdish Sorani via Dynamic Line Generation and Script-Aware Normalization

OCR for low-resource languages is still held back by the same small number of issues: too little labeled image-text data, too few benchmarks, and thin language-specific tooling. Kurdish Sorani is a particularly awkward case. It is written in a modified Arabic script, runs right to left, and has orthographic habits that...