OCR has tendency to misread the '<' between first and middle names.

[Nimbus76]

read_mrz()/tesseract tends to interpret the '<' between first and middle name as a 'K'

I have tried multiple scans of varying quality of several passports and this anomaly occurs more often than not. Sometimes, it also interprets the '<' as an "X".

Every other field has been reliable.

[canklot]

Are you using the legacy mode with tesseract?

[RanaOsamaAsif]

Facing the same issue with names, is there any way to fix/improve this behavior?

[konstantint]

@RanaOsamaAsif Try both the legacy and new Tesseract models. In my experience the legacy model was more robust with respect to this particular issue.