Comment by jakderrida

Holy Crap! You were right about PaddleOCR. My personal benchmark for OCR tools is to submit several random pages from the first edition Moody's Manual for Railroads.

https://imgur.com/r2RsJeH

The reason I use it is to test whether it's just analyzing letter-by-letter (even if they claim it does more) or if it's actually scanning the letter/word in its context. If it's letter-by-letter, I get hilariously awful results.

Sure, it got things wrong. But it also figured out some things even I couldn't decipher.