Comment by menaerus

I thought the OCR was one of the obvious examples where we have a classical technology that is already working very well but in the long-run I don't see it surviving. _Generic_ AI models already can do the OCR kinda good but they are not even trained for that purpose, it's almost incidental - they've never been trained to extract the, let's say name/surname from some sort of a document with a completely unfamiliar structure, but the crazy thing is that it does work somehow! I think that once somebody finetunes the AI model only for this purpose I think there's a good chance it will outperform classical approach in terms of precision and scalability.