Towards a Joint Khmer Text Recognition and Word Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30213v1
• Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:53:25 GMT
• Title: Towards a Joint Khmer Text Recognition and Word Segmentation
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a novel joint Khmer text recognition and word segmentation framework in a unified model.<n>The proposed model can not only recognize characters in document images but also locate word boundaries.
• Score: 3.5477182055025107
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Text recognition, or extracting electronic text from document images, has been indispensable for knowledge retrieval tasks, such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). For Khmer, extracted text is subject to an extra word segmentation step, as Khmer does not use any visible word delimiters to denote word boundaries. Thus, a recognition-then-segmentation pipeline for Khmer requires two separate sequential models; this is not only error-prone but also adds significant latency for large-scale document processing. This paper proposes a novel joint Khmer text recognition and word segmentation framework in a unified model. The proposed model, using a connectionist-temporal-classification (CTC) decoder for fast, parallel decoding, can be instructed to recognize Khmer text with ($b=1$) and without ($b=0$) word segmentation. Experimental results on different benchmark datasets of different document modalities (document, scene, and handwritten images) show that the proposed model can not only recognize characters in document images but also locate word boundaries, removing the need for an extra word segmentation step in a conventional sequential pipeline.

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