I was going to suggest something similar - would it be worth contacting your local family history society to see whether any members would be willing to help digitalise / convert your card index ?
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:10:40 +0100
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> Posted on behalf of Steven Baker, Information Systems Officer, University of London
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> Hi Anna,
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> I have been redeveloping our own Card Catalogue (http://cards.ull.ac.uk) to enable freetext search of 550,000 cards.
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> I have almost completed the project using .NET technologies - all done in-house – and a Bootstrap/Jquery front end.
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> We are also trying to do something different with the discovery layer also; automated OCR is not fully accurate, so we are asking our users to contribute and submit a reading of the card – it’s a little unconventional but we’re going to experiment.
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> Our own website isn’t fully ready but I can make the beta available for you to view.
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> Regards,
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> Steve
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> Steven Baker
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