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Just curious as to how well AI and OCR can handle locale issues in documents? E.g. is 1.000 is 1000 in German. There was also the famous Xerox scan bug.


We just had that same bug when we used a conventional ML engine to OCR a document. Thats very common on quantities. The new LLMs allow for prompt engineering, so we were able to solve it.




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