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OCR, Lens, Live Text: fine on clean print, useless on everything old. Secretary hand, a parish register, a smudged letter, a clerk's scrawl. That is the page I want. Send one page (photo or scan) and I send back what it says: the names, the dates, the words as I make them out, what each of them rests on, and the lines I could not read. Read by eye and checked against whatever record exists, not a guess dressed up as a reading. If the hand beats me or the ink is gone, I tell you before any money changes hands. Sample, live: a 1539 letter no OCR app could touch, and my read of it: https://telegra.ph/A-1539-letter-no-OCR-app-can-read-Heres-my-read-10-11 What you get: a written read of your page (PDF or plain text), one revision included. Your page stays yours. I publish nothing and repeat nothing of it.