AI RESEARCH
The Devil is in the Details -- From OCR for Old Church Slavonic to Purely Visual Stemma Reconstruction
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.11724v1 Announce Type: new The age of artificial intelligence has brought many new possibilities and pitfalls in many fields and tasks. The devil is in the details, and those come to the fore when building new pipelines and executing small practical experiments. OCR and stemmatology are no exception. The current investigation starts comparing a range of OCR-systems, from classical over machine learning to LLMs, for roughly 6,000 characters of late handwritten church slavonic manuscripts from the 18th century.