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Built a page-by-page aligned Multimodal Ground Truth Dataset for historical handwriting (278 pages) + air-gapped sandbox. Looking for feedback!

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Hi everyone, I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on under my solo brand, LegacyDataLabs. As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) grow, I noticed there's a massive shortage of high-quality, human-validated multimodal datasets for historical handwriting—especially for niche languages like Swedish.…

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  1. 2026-08-19 19:32 · r/huggingface
    Built a page-by-page aligned Multimodal Ground Truth Dataset for historical handwriting (278 pages) + air-gapped sandbox. Looking for feedback!
  2. 2026-08-19 19:30 · r/computervision
    Built a page-by-page aligned Multimodal Ground Truth Dataset for historical handwriting (278 pages) + air-gapped sandbox. Looking for feedback!

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