Sometimes what is on the page is ambiguous. Imagine a scan where the dot over the i is missing in a word like "this". What's on the page is "thls" but to transcribe it that way would be an error outside of forensic contexts.

I am reminded it's basically impossible to read cursive writing in a language you don't know even if it's the same alphabet.

Interesting. Won't stuff like entity extraction suffer? Especially in multilingual use cases. My worry is that a smaller model might not realize some text is actually a persons name because it is very unusual.