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LLM based OCR is a disaster, great potential for hallucinations and no estimate of confidence. Results might seem promising but you’ll always be wondering.


Absolutely right - we tried estimating LLM confidence and the results are not great. Any process that requires reliability will struggle with LLM OCR.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43350816


CNN-based OCR also have "hallucinations" and Transformers aren't that much different in that respect. This is a problem solved with domain specific post-processing.


well already in 2013 ocr systems used in xerox scanners (turned on by default!) randomly altered numbers, so its not an issue only occuring in llms.




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