The FineBooks project from Hugging Face and EleutherAI tested 14 open-source OCR models on more than 2,000 historical book pages. The top model, dots.mocr, hits 97.6 percent character accuracy at under two dollars per thousand pages. That's good enough for AI training data, but not yet for scholarly transcriptions, the team says.
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