Projects

[soviet.recipes]

Digitizing "The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food" - a Soviet-era cookbook that survived an empire's collapse, an ocean crossing, and decades as a family heirloom. Using OCR, vision-language models, and document processing pipelines to extract data from 224 high-resolution book page images.

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Statement Processor

An extensible tool for extracting transaction data from PDF bank and credit card statements. Find exactly which vendors to update when your card is lost, stolen, or expires.

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Kiro SDLC Toolkit

Five Kiro Powers, two Steering files, and setup instructions for an optional Hook and MCP server, installed with one prompt. The companion toolkit for the Agentic AI SDLC guide.

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