> It looks like there's not much progress done since in the field
LLMs help here. From my own experiments chatGPT is pretty good "smart, context-aware" OCR agent.
LLMs help here. From my own experiments chatGPT is pretty good "smart, context-aware" OCR agent.
You are perhaps imagining more constrained scenarios of straight lines of consistent text on a page with well-known artifacts of "noise" (smudges, print imperfections, and so on).