PalmLeaf-VQA: A Multi-Script Visual Question Answering Benchmark for Historical Palm-Leaf Manuscript Understanding Across Diverse Regions

Historical manuscripts remain largely absent from modern vision-language benchmarks, leaving open how well multimodal large language models (MLLMs) handle culturally diverse, degraded, and non-Latin document images. We introduce \textbf{PalmLeaf-VQA}, a multi-script visual question answering benchma