HI everyone, thanks for the traffic & comments on this post. I wrote it just at the start of my research hoping to get feedback & collaborative partners to push the idea forward. Since this post, I’ve been continuing research on the topic using better tools & approaches with the good folks of
https://rescribe.xyz/. We’ve especially been pursuing tools with neural networks & machine learning (as some of you mention, this is related to Tesseract). We’ve had some positive results & good findings that show there are many more possibilities for using OCR to read medieval manuscripts. We’re currently writing up our results, so watch for that!