For what its worth, very high quality OCR from Google's Vision offering costs $0.0015 per page, with 1000 free pages per month. In my experience, it has been signficantly superior to any open source solution.
Tangential: you can finetune something like flan-ul2 to do quote extraction using examples generated from chatgpt. If you have a good enough GPU, it should help cut down costs significantly
Not sure why there no direct replies to this, but 108 is a dedicated line for all emergencies. Interestingly 112 and 911 have also worked for me in the past when butt dialed.