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Why Sinhala OCR Took 30 Years: Notes from a 97% Accuracy Run

What it actually takes to make a machine read a script the big labs ignore.

[AUTHOR REQUIRED] 12 Jun 2026 [X min]

A field report from building Sinhala & Tamil OCR to 97% accuracy — the script complexity, the missing training data, and why this was a language-technology problem before it was a scanning one.

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