arxivcs.CVcs.CLcs.LG2026-06-26
Joint Transcription and Decryption of Images of Encrypted Handwritten Documents: A Comparison with the Traditional Pipeline
Marino Oliveros-Blanco, Lei Kang, Alicia Fornés, Beáta Megyesi
Historical encrypted manuscripts present a challenging problem at the intersection of cryptology, linguistics, paleography, and computer vision. Current automatic decipherment approaches usually rely on a two-stage pipeline: transcription of cipher symbols from manuscript images,…