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Real-world OCR is much harder than demo examples

Been experimenting with OCR and AI document workflows lately.

One thing that surprised me quickly: clean demo datasets don’t reflect production uploads at all.

Users upload blurry photos, dark invoices, tilted ID cards, and compressed screenshots β€” and that changes everything.

Preprocessing improved our extraction quality more than switching providers repeatedly.

Curious if others building AI/document workflows are seeing the same thing.

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