A review of ancient Manchu word recognition for low-resource heritage OCR
摘要
Ancient Manchu word recognition is a low-resource heritage OCR problem shaped by degraded document images, connected vertical script, scarce annotations, and limited expert knowledge. This Review synthesizes methodological progress from statistical and rule-based approaches to feature-engineered machine learning, deep learning, transfer learning, and vision-language recognition. It highlights persistent benchmark, robustness, and cross-collection generalization bottlenecks and outlines an expert-guided roadmap for reliable heritage OCR.