arxivcs.CLcs.CV2026-06-28
Can OCR-VLMs Read Devanagari? A Stress-Test Benchmark and Post-Correction Study
OCR systems, ranging from classical engines to specialised OCR vision-language models (OCR-VLMs) and frontier multimodal LLMs, report strong results on English and Chinese document benchmarks, yet their behaviour on Indic scripts is largely uncharacterised. We benchmark ten syste…