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The overhaul to get the Netherlands to that point took about 10 years, if I recall - I saw a talk by a team from your Land Registry talking about scanning goat hide parchments in Old Dutch into the property rights database!

It's a pretty impressive system overall: https://www.elra.eu/enriching-the-data-from-the-cadastre-and... and in jurisdictions with this kind of sophistication obviously there's less need for alternative solutions.




Yeah, I worked on a system where they wanted to make this accessible - until someone realised that yeah, OCR doesn't work on 300 year old documents :)




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