Thai-born researcher builds AI app to unlock Japan's 1,000-year-old classical documents
tkasasagi · x · 2026-11-15
A Thai-born researcher captivated by Japanese literature, now at Sakana AI, built an AI app that uses image recognition to decipher Japan's millennium-old classical manuscripts — including hard-to-read cursive kana handwriting — making documents once accessible only to specialists readable by everyone. Screenshots show the app annotating each line of a historical text on an iPad.
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