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The AI turned my dad's scanned Navy letters into an interactive timeline

He had a PDF of scanned letters from his dad's Navy years, the paper letters long misplaced, and had put the project off for decades. He asked the AI to turn the PDF into an interactive timeline, and after about 10 minutes of prompting it was live online.

How it works

  1. Hands the AI a PDF of his dad's scanned Navy letters
  2. Prompts the AI for about 10 minutes
  3. The AI builds an interactive timeline and it goes live online

Why it’s worth knowing

A family history project he had avoided for decades took about 10 minutes of prompting once the AI did the building.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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