It's very surprising to me that the state of the art tools for data entry and digitizing still require a lot of supervision. From the article it's not that surprising that handwritten documents are harder for old-school OCR or AI as that can be hard even for humans in some cases. But tables and different layouts seem like low hanging fruit for vision models.

Speaking about "that the state of the art tools", might be 6 months or 20 years old. Surfaced opinions might rely on software that a company licensed 2 years ago. Sadly, we need to take this enterprise speed of adaptation into account.