Beyond Pixel Reconstruction: Retrieval-Guided Glyph-Aware Restoration for Low-Resource Manchu Historical Documents

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arXiv:2610.00315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Historical Manchu documents preserve invaluable linguistic and cultural heritage, yet their digitization is hindered by severe degradations and the scarcity of paired training data. Existing document restoration methods primarily optimize pixel-level reconstruction, which can produce visually plausible results while failing to preserve the structural identity of Manchu glyphs. To address this limitation, we propose a retrieval-guided glyph-aware