In general, detexify (here) and my ScanTools workflow is great. However, sometimes more can be done. 1micromamba create -n textocr 2micromamba activate textocr 3micromamba install torchvision -c pytorch 4pip install pix2tex[gui] 5pip install python-doctr 6pip install nougat-ocr The TeX tool (LaTeX OCR) works great even via the terminal. The doctr library is a bit more finicky, but can be a decent way to extract plain text when regular OCR tools fail (e.