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How Far Can Synthetic Data Take Thai OCR?

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 3, 2026 · UTC

We investigate what makes synthetic OCR supervision transfer to real Thai documents and use the resulting insights to build Wayu-Paxa-OCR-Zero, a Thai OCR model adapted without OCR labels from real Thai document pages. Synthetic data provide exact labels at scale, but "realism" conflates source domain, page context, typography, spatial structure, and glyph variation. We disentangle these factors with a controlled document-reconstruction pipeline and evaluate each variant under page- and crop-level training on printed and handwritten Thai documents. Non-text context has little consistent effect

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