Semi-OT (similar language): The national archives in Sweden and Finland published a model for OCR:ing handwritten Swedish text from the 1600s to the 1800s with what to me seems like a very level of accuracy given the source material. (4% character error rate)
They have also published a fairly large volume of OCR:ed texts (IIRC birth/death notices from church records) using this model online. As a beginner genealogist it's been fun to follow.