Why does optical character recognition (OCR) for handwritten Amharic script achieve lower accuracy compared to printed Latin script?

💡 Explanation

Ge'ez script relies on grapheme proliferation representing various vowel sounds, because it increases OCR's complexity when classifying handwritten characters due to variability. Therefore, OCR accuracy decreases for Amharic script, rather than other options which do not address script complexity.

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