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by ryanjshaw 757 days ago
No it hasn't. Just 1.5 years ago I tried all the latest OCR tools, including AWS, GCP and Azure services, and none of them could consistently and reliably read a receipt printed at a store.
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Receipts are hard.

- cheap paper

- cheap ink

- misprints

- abbreviations

- every store does it differently

Yes. Which makes OCR not a solved problem.
OCR is merely step one.

Interpreting recognized characters is another matter.