> seems like a logical move to adapt a pretrained model for ocr for cursive and then use that. "seems like", but you've never done much of that or you wouldn't have bothered suggesting it. ocr struggles with a lot of things. do you know how hard it was to develop reliable ocr just to deal with all the common hebrew fonts? ocr sucks at handwriting unless it's basically all caps written slowly. ocr can't deal with doctor's prescriptions, for example. famous issue in medical software.
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