That's amazing!
I'm working on a kinda similar project (documenting bank runs from historical newspapers) and also opted for Claude to build a static website. Crazy that the two sites have a very similar look and feel: https://www.finhist.com/bank-runs/index.html . The only big difference is that mine lacks a map, which I should hopefully fix soon (I already have lat and lon and am linking to google maps).
PS: Do you know if mistral works better at OCRing handwritten text than gemini 3? Was planning on going the gemini3 for another project
That's cool! I've noticed when asking for Claude for a website, it does have a certain look, like our two sites, if you don't give it any more guidance. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
Digitizing history in different ways, with different resources that are unique or only known to small groups, might be a new development area, and that's exciting. As I've shown, and how other people have shared, using AI tools to digitize things which haven't previously been done before is now possible. Are there ways to make this easier for everybody? New techniques to discuss? I don't know, and I'd love to talk about it.
Concerning OCR: I used Mistral because of a posting here describing advancements with handwriting recognition a month or so ago. I didn't actually compare them. And I've got my setup that I can rerun everything again later if there are advancements in the area. Again, another area to keep track of and discuss.
Thanks for the insights! I'll try Mistral as well.. Gemini worked well for me so far but which model is SOTA is changing quite frequently these days