I have an actually hard OCR exercise for an AI model: I take this image of Chinese text on one of the memorial stones on the Washington Monument https://www.nps

I have an actually hard OCR exercise for an AI model: I take this image of Chinese text on one of the memorial stones on the Washington Monument https://www.nps.gov/articles/american-mission-ningpo-china-220-level.htm https://www.nps.gov/articles/american-mission-ningpo-china-2... and ask the model to do OCR. Not a single model I've seen can OCR this correctly. Mistral is especially bad here: it gets stuck in an endless loop of nonsensical hallucinated text. Insofar as Mistral is design for "preserving historical and cultural heritage" it couldn't do that very well yet. A good model can recognize that the text is written top to bottom and then right to left and perform OCR in that direction. Apple's Live Text can do that, though it makes plenty of mistakes otherwise. Mistral is far from that.