Digitising Mum: Analog Ghosts, Bureaucracy, and a Dual-Engine OCR Pipeline

September 06, 2026

If I’ve been quiet lately, or if I’ve seemed perpetually distracted for the past twelve months, this is why. It’s almost the one-year anniversary of my mother’s death, and I am still drowning in paperwork. Grief, it turns out, is mostly just an endless series of administrative tasks.