Chandra OCR Breakthrough: How AI Is Redefining Document Understanding in 2025

It Started with a Handwritten Form’s “Resurrection” In early 2025, a medical records digitization team faced a daunting challenge: converting thousands of handwritten patient forms from the 1970s into structured data. Traditional OCR solutions struggled, failing to decipher the faded ink and cursive script, with accuracy plummeting below 30%. Then they tried a model named Chandra – a tool the team lead described as “practically magic.” “Not only did it accurately read handwriting that even we found difficult,” the lead shared, “but it also correctly identified checkboxes and reconstructed the entire form into editable Markdown, perfectly preserving the original layout.” …