Comment by ComputerGuru

We desperately need a modern open source replacement for tesseract built on current SoTA ML tech. It is insane that we are resorting to using LLMs — which aside from being the wrong tool and far too overpowered for the job also are prone to hallucinations, have insanely expensive training and inference costs, etc — for this purpose because the “best” non-LLM solution is so bad it can’t even correctly ocr monospaced hi-res scans of ascii text with sufficient accuracy.