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I can assure you this is not a thin wrapper. Even the public repo of the first workable version of it is not a thin wrapper.

You are welcome to try. It is not rocket science, but what I developed would take much effort to reproduce.

I wrote an origin story about how I got started: https://aicentral.substack.com/p/pipeline-to-the-past

It describes some of the added value and lessons learned.

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Also, people can look at the Github repo of your prior version and see it's clearly not just 'running it through Claude'.

https://github.com/sweisman/translation-pipeline

What I haven't found in either the OP or Github repo is what your background is - software development? astrophysics? paleography? two or three of those? [edit: history of science?] - and what human review is involved. (My apologies if I overlooked anything; I don't have time to read it all!)

Software development. I did work in an astrophysics lab decades ago, as one of my public repos documents.

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