AI is going to take over the world they say, but we still don't have an easy to use and free high end OCR available.

Australia's Trove is getting humans to translate them‽ - https://trove.nla.gov.au/help/become-voluntrove/text-correct...

Anyway, very cool, the world needs more of these out of copyright newspapers online. History has been lockup up by historians for to long.

There is Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

> Australia's Trove is getting humans to translate them‽

Your link clearly refers to correcting an existing transcription:

"While viewing digitised newspaper and gazette articles, you may notice that the text transcript doesn’t always match the text in the article. You have the power to fix this by editing the transcript to match the article text."

Most likely they used OCR software to generate the initial transcript, but allow users to correct the OCR output because they know the software is not perfect.