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[soviet.recipes]
Digitizing "The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food" - a Soviet-era cookbook that survived an empire's collapse, an ocean crossing, and decades as a family heirloom. Using OCR, vision-language models, and document processing pipelines to extract data from 224 high-resolution book page images.
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An extensible tool for extracting transaction data from PDF bank and credit card statements. Find exactly which vendors to update when your card is lost, stolen, or expires.
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This Is Not Bogdan
A reflection on identity, representation, and the tension between the digital self and the real self in an age of AI and algorithmic personas.
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A Plan for Turning Soviet Cookbook Pages into Data
A planning overview comparing five possible approaches for extracting machine-readable text from 224 high-resolution images of a Soviet cookbook.
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