Digitised 8,200 deeds in 3 weeks instead of 6 months

My lawyer brother in law died in January so my sister needs to close the business down. We need a register of every deed (and whether each is current or obsolete). We have the information but it is not digitised so it is labour intensive to find out what information we have. My sister asked me to create a register of the deeds (8200 of them)! Some are 50 years old and file numbers and names were written in cursive. Her expectation was that I type the number and names into an excel file. Once that was done she wanted me to go through the card index system and remove all obsolete cards. The result from that process would be that when my sister gets a query on whether we have their deeds she would go to town to the office to check through the card index to see if we have a person’s deeds. Before this program I would have done what she asked. It would have taken 3-6 months. Thanks to this program I laid out 50 files at a time on the floor and took a photo, I then built a skill to convert the photo into an index. This took less than 3 weeks. And my sister’s life is way easier, one less burdensome task off her list, and she can check if we have a client’s deeds from home via the created index (html file) Easing someone’s grief would be awesome to be able to do, the next best thing is to make their live a little easier – thanks Vyk and AIM 😊 NOTE - The pics are for MindValley to see the before and after - please do not share the pics widere