Vision Models for OCR: When They Beat Tesseract and When They Don't
Gabriel Anhaia
Book: Prompt Engineering Pocket Guide: Techniques for Getting the Most from LLMs Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal Architecture in Go My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub A finance team at a mid-sized SaaS feeds 40,000 expense receipts a month through Tesseract. Most are German supermarket prints with thermal-paper fade. The accuracy floor on th