Is this not Trump's usual negotiation strategy? Start with outrageous, totally unacceptable demands and then slowly dial back while everyone else runs around like headless chickens. Ends with him in a much better position than if he had approached things in a rational manner?
... unavoidable "human in the loop" - depends imo.
From the comments here, it certainly seems that for general OCR it's not up to snuff yet. Luckily, I don't have great ambitions.
I can see this working for me with just a little care upfront preprocessing now that I know where it falls over. It casually skips portions of the document, and misses certain lines consistently. Knowing that I can do a bit massaging, and feed it what I know it likes, and then reassemble.
I found in testing that it failed consistently at certain parts, but where it worked, it worked extremely well in contrast to other methods/services that I've been using.