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Reading or Guessing? An Urdu Font-Twin Benchmark

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This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge . Urdu OCR has an unusually revealing stress test built into its typography. Nastaliq is diagonal, context-heavy, and visually dense; Naskh is more linear. If a multimodal model is truly reading the glyphs, changing only the font should not…

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  1. 2026-10-11 12:29 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
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