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Using AI to Restore and Translate Historical Books

Deedy
Deedy
2d ago

I used AI to bring back old scanned books in Hindi (and any other language) that were lost to history back to life. I brought back the prescient 1924 Hindi novel "Baeesween Sadi" (22nd Century) that predicts what life in the future might look like, 100+ yrs later. Indian author Rahul Sankrityayan had predicted things like video calls far before they were invented. How do you do it? Claude Code w/Opus 4.6 as the orchestrator, OCR by Sarvam [more on this later], GPT-4.1 as the translator, Gemini 3 Pro for illustrations. I've always wanted to bring back obscure literature from the past back and readable for everybody since I was a kid and I was gobsmacked that you can effectively achieve this with a few prompts *perfectly*. If there's anything in particular you want to be brought back to life, let me know and I'll front the bill to do it! Here is a link to the full PDF:

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artificial intelligencemachine learningnatural language processingdigital preservationliteraturetranslation technologycultural heritage

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