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After hours of further investigation, I decided to get in touch with Apple Developer Tech Support. Sure enough, this is a bug! When VNRecognizeTextRequest.recognitionLevel is set to .accurate, as I had, the bug manifests. When recognitionLevel is set to .fast, the results behave as expected, with discrete bounding boxes per character.