Using 20 scanned pages of 1921 Belgian handwritten tables, the authors report that GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 transcribe more accurately than EasyOCR, Keras, Pytesseract, and TrOCR, with two-shot prompting giving the best results.
Other thesis, OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (May 2023), https://eprints .ost.ch/id/eprint/1189, thesis advisor: Mitra Purandare
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Early evidence of how LLMs outperform traditional systems on OCR/HTR tasks for historical records
Using 20 scanned pages of 1921 Belgian handwritten tables, the authors report that GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 transcribe more accurately than EasyOCR, Keras, Pytesseract, and TrOCR, with two-shot prompting giving the best results.