A lace-making archive scans pattern cards whose optical readout is full of broken words. Before a still-image matcher runs, a volunteer wants a transformer to tidy that text. What is the soundest first experiment?
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Short Explanation
Think of the messy OCR as a muddy label stuck to a photo. Washing the label with a transformer is a fair first experiment, but you still need the photo matcher. Cleaning text does not replace the visual arm.
Full Explanation
In a multimodal experiment the transformer is the text-cleanup stage that sits before image retrieval. Tidying OCR improves what the text arm can contribute without discarding the still-image matcher. Regenerating scans or swapping in TTS changes a different modality and does not answer whether text cleanup helps the paired lookup.