I guess my point is that this project is interesting because it doesn't depend so strongly on the OCR being perfect, as he's allowing to prescribe a handwriting

I guess my point is that this project is interesting because it doesn't depend so strongly on the OCR being perfect, as he's allowing to prescribe a handwriting style that helps it along. I just think it's a nice compromise, and something that I hadn't thought of previously. Obviously the tech can always be improved, but I find this to be a secondary concern. Ideas can still be cool without worrying about implementation details. For instance, if the PoC works well enough, but you want better performance, then you can train a new OCR system specifically for it. You can break the project down into pieces, where each piece is an interesting challenge. Meanwhile getting 80% performance out of an existing solution allows you to build up a dataset to be used for improving it.