[Open-Legislation] docfnord

Tue Jan 11 06:24:55 UTC 2011

On 01/11/2011 12:38 AM, Stefan Sels wrote:

	I hope we dont have to OCR anything :) 

There is definitely a need for a quick, reliable and anonymous OCR service (fax2html would be great).

For example, it's easy to imagine a paper copy of the Hungarian media law could have been leaked a week or two before the English translation was officially released. With OCR, we would then have had a markup of the copypaste parts (the longstrings/frags/pippies) of the law in an instant.

And with that markup, it would have been easier to analyse (and criticise) the Hungarian government's claim the law is compliant with existing EU legislation (see http://euwiki.org/HUMED#Article_230 ).

So let me add OCR to the wish list :-)

//Erik

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