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Research · 2026

Toward Better Khmer OCR with Adaptive Orthographic Unit CTC

A review of Khmer OCR research and a proposed script-aware recognition architecture built around Khmer orthographic units, mixed-script decoding, and CTC alignment.

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Engineering · 2026

Why I Rebuilt Typst Preview for Typsastra

A journey from complex-script editing to previewing 1,500-page documents on modest hardware.

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