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Modern OCR narrows gap on doctors’ handwriting

A new benchmark of handwritten medical prescriptions shows that compact modern optical character recognition systems can decipher doctors’ handwriting far better than established OCR engines, while…

  • GLM-OCR achieved highest Character Error Rate (CER) of 0.328 in April 2026 test
  • PP-OCRv5 provided lower Word Error Rate (WER) of 0.789
  • GLM-OCR correctly reproduced only 32.6% of tested words

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