Comment by cvz

I am working with printed documents. Maybe LLMs currently make a difference with handwriting recognition. I wasn't directly responding to that. It's outside the little bit that I know, and I didn't even think of it as "OCR".

I'm not saying that I need high accuracy (though I do), I'm saying that the current accuracy (and clarifying that this is specifically for printed text) is already very high. Part of the reason it's so high is because the old complicated character-by-character classifiers have already been replaced with neural networks that process entire lines at a time. It's already moving in the direction you're saying we need.