[guyomes]

For handwritten texts, the tool that works best for me is Qwen2.5-VL-72b [0]. It is also available online [1]. I'm surprised that it is not mentioned in the article since even the previous model (Qwen2-VL-72b) was better than the other VLMs I tried for OCR on handwritten texts.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct

[1]: https://chat.qwenlm.ai