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clasicallyabbyy | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are good genealogy/family history/immigration search engines?

Would be interesting to know if they’ve gotten into OCR solutions at all on their collection of documents. Worked for a company back in the day that sourced historical, public domain books from JSTOR, Google Books, etc. We used Abbyy to run OCR across all these old texts to provide highlighting in-app, text search, etc.

Took some tuning but we had good quality output across a variety of (mostly European) languages.