Koshur Pixel: a large-scale synthetic ocr dataset for kashmiri (opens in new tab)

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for low-resource languages is often constrained by the lack of annotated training data and the complexity of script-specific rendering. Kashmiri, written primarily in the Perso-Arabic Nastaliq script, presents additional challenges due to contextual glyph shaping, dense ligatures, and orthographic variability. We introduce Koshur Pixel, the first large-scale synthetic OCR dataset for Kashmiri, comprising 613...