SwinAraBERT-Fusion: A Multimodal Transformer Architecture for Robust Arabic OCR and Handwriting Recognition with Diacritic-Aware Contextual Modeling
Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwriting Recognition (HWR) remain persistently challenging due to the script's inherently cursive nature, context-dependent positional letter forms, dense diacritic system (tashkeel), and high inter-class visual similarity among characters. While transformer-based archi...