Hello all. I found this set of instructions on how to take books like you would find on PRDL (Post Reformation Digital Library), i.e. the old Latin, Dutch, French, etc. ones and prep them for auto-transcription/translation using Anthropic AI/API. In the instructions they say they choose Anthropic (or Claude Opus 4.6) because they have found it to do the best with exact transcription. While the apps this person created for the process look to be Python based, it looks they made them to have a web interface, so that all one would have to do is put them in something like Pycharm, download the dependencies, and hit Run; then all the work is done through a Tkinter interface. Looking at these, they seem to have covered everything needed, from converting the color facsimiles to Grayscale, a way to clean up the Side Margin Notes pre-transcription, a Transcription Editor specifically designed to properly "Chunk" for Translation, and a specific app for the whole API Translation process that takes a lot of the guess work out of it for those just starting with Python.
The reason I am mentioning this, is because Logos well, deals mainly in books. We all know that in the 1500 year history in which most of the Churches works were written in Latin and Greek, only a small fraction of them will ever be attempted to be professionally translated in our lifetime. Stuff like these instructions are a way where at least people on their own can pick a book, and within 1-2 weeks of proper prep in their spare time, and very little monetary expense, can have almost any one of these older books transcribed and translated, and ready to be read.
So, hope this blesses someone. I was thinking Logos is a good place to post this, but, admin, please feel free to remove if not appropriate. G.B.
Here are the videos on Youtube which also link to the site where the Python Scripts can be found:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlo9cIxMXMQ7UyhL6AWK_XZT7zChsrrrb
The site is Monergism, in their Ref Notes section. This is not to point to other books, as Monergism and Logos are two different things with different purposes. Only to link to the instruction videos of this process, as I haven't found a place anywhere else on the web that details the whole process from start to finish. https://www.monergism.com/ref-notes
