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by Holybeds 2757 days ago
There's a difference between doing OCR and actually understanding what is what in the document content.

For normal text OCR works well. But automatically understanding what is what is more complex.

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This ^^

And actually understanding the context of what you're trying to use OCR on can work backward to determine what the text actually is, i.e. if it's a "Name" field then the probabilities of ambiguous letters may change (in the case of handwriting rec).