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R.O.A.D. Barbados Historic Handwriting Challenge

Helping Barbados
$25 000 USD
~2 months left
Optical Character Recognition
Natural Language Processing
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OCR models, VLM, or custom?
9 Aug 2026, 11:09 · 1

Hi everyone! I have a question for folks who broke above .91, I am not looking for exact setups, just curious about the general direction people went. Are you mostly using OCR-specific models, general-purpose VLMs, or fully custom-trained architectures? Even a rough breakdown would help. Thanks

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@sdv I would appreciate your take on this :)

9 Aug 2026, 13:37
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