Say more?

You mean what other candidates are there?

Overwork, lack of space, lack of transportation.

I imagine people blames the internet for lack of interest (as in "social networks are a dopamine machine"). But IMO it's absurd to jump into a lack of interest when the physical means for people to get together are destroyed.

I’ve used Surya (https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya) before. It is very good (on par with Google Vision, potentially better layout analysis), but yours is a challenging use case. I wonder if it would be useful.