OCR apps that actually get it done?

There are good OCR models but for some unknown reasons all of these apps use the Tesseract. You can use GitHub - zibo-chen/rust-paddle-ocr: 高性能OCR识别库，支持上百种语言，提供命令行、图形界面及C API多种调用方式，使用便捷高效。 High-performance OCR library powered by PaddleOCR v4/v5 with MNN backend. Supports 10+ languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, Thai, etc). Provides Rust crate + C API + CLI tools. Fast, lightweight, easy-to-integrate. · GitHub in termux.