RapidOCR (PaddleOCR) is optimized for full-page scene text and produces
artifacts on small isolated cell crops: extra characters ("Tanz z",
"er r wollte"), missing punctuation, garbled phonetic transcriptions.
Tesseract works much better on isolated binarized crops with upscaling,
which is exactly what cell-first OCR provides. RapidOCR remains available
as explicit engine choice via the dropdown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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