# MF Smart Research

> MF Smart Research provides AI-powered historical research services using OCR, LLM, RAG and AI research agents. Based at [https://mf-sr.com](https://mf-sr.com)

MF Smart Research (mf-sr.com) is a professional historical research service founded by Maaty Frankelson, a researcher, archivist, and Ph.D. candidate in History. The company leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies to transform how historical research is conducted for archives, museums, universities, and private clients.

## Services

- **Public & Institutional Research**: AI-powered research services for government bodies, public institutions, and research organizations. Includes policy research, historical surveys, and institutional memory projects.
- **Archive & Museum Digitization**: Digital preservation and intelligent analysis of archival collections using OCR, computer vision, and AI classification for museums, archives, and cultural heritage institutions.
- **Academic & Documentary Research**: Large-scale qualitative research, visual data mining, and archival retrieval for academic researchers, documentary filmmakers, media producers, and investigative journalists.
- **Private & Family Heritage Research**: Genealogy research, family history documentation, Holocaust research, and local history projects for individuals and families using AI-powered tools for tracing lineage and heritage.

## Technologies Used

- **OCR (Optical Character Recognition)**: Specialized in historical document recognition, including Hebrew manuscripts, Yiddish texts, Ladino documents, handwritten documents, and degraded texts.
- **HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition)**: AI-trained models for reading historical handwriting in Hebrew, Yiddish, Latin, German, and other scripts commonly found in Jewish and European archives.
- **LLM (Large Language Models)**: For intelligent analysis, summarization, entity extraction (people, places, dates, events), and contextual understanding of historical texts in multiple languages.
- **RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)**: Combining AI with archival databases for accurate, source-grounded, verifiable research findings with scholarly integrity.
- **AI Research Agents**: Autonomous AI agents that can search, cross-reference, and analyze across multiple archival sources simultaneously, generating comprehensive reports with source citations.

## Specialized Expertise

- Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino historical document processing
- Holocaust and Shoah documentation and research
- Jewish genealogy and family heritage tracing
- Community records (pinkas kehila) and memorial books (Yizkor books)
- Rabbinical texts, responsa literature, and ketubot
- Immigration records, ship manifests, and naturalization documents
- Cairo Genizah documents and fragments
- Historical newspaper and periodical digitization
- Cemetery records and vital records research

## Languages

The website and services are available in English and Hebrew (עברית).
Document processing supported in: Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, English, German, Polish, Russian, French, Arabic, and other languages.

## Contact

- Website: https://mf-sr.com
- Email: maaty@mf-sr.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maaty-frenkelzon-b634b241/
- Telegram: https://t.me/mfsmartresearch

## Blog

MF Smart Research publishes articles and project case studies about AI in historical research:
- Digital Archiving in the AI Era
- OCR for Historical Hebrew Documents
- AI-Powered Genealogy & Family Heritage
- RAG Technology for Archive Research
- Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
- AI Research Agents for Academic History
- From Archive to Reader: A Historical Newspapers Research Project with AI
- Project: Turning Dozens of Memoirs into a Single, Searchable Knowledge Base
- Project: Building a Historical Database for One Transformative Year
- Project: Adding Academic Annotations to a Personal Memoir for Publication
- Project: Finding a Needle in a Historical Haystack with AI Research Agents

## Project Case Studies

MF Smart Research has completed real-world projects including:
- Digitizing and analyzing thousands of historical newspaper pages across multiple languages using custom OCR and AI research agents
- Processing dozens of personal memoirs and testimonies into a unified, searchable knowledge base with automatic entity extraction and cross-referencing
- Building a comprehensive historical database for a single transformative year, consolidating press, diplomatic documents, diaries, and meeting minutes
- Adding scholarly annotations and footnotes to personal memoirs for academic publication, with verification against archival sources
- Deploying parallel AI research agents to discover specific historical information scattered across hundreds of archival sources

## Links

- [English Homepage](https://mf-sr.com/en/)
- [Hebrew Homepage](https://mf-sr.com/he/)
- [English Blog](https://mf-sr.com/en/blog/)
- [Hebrew Blog](https://mf-sr.com/he/blog/)
- [Full documentation for LLMs](https://mf-sr.com/llms-full.txt)