[Open-Legislation] docfnord

[stef]

besides having ocr being very important. i also would like to stress the need
for a pdf to some sensible markup. not much, bullets, headings, footnotes
should be recognized. tables would be a big bonus. lots of documents are only
available as pdfs for datamining them we need a good representation of the
text.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 07:24:55AM +0100, JOSEFSSON Erik wrote:
> On 01/11/2011 12:38 AM, Stefan Sels wrote:
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> 	I hope we dont have to OCR anything :) 
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> There is definitely a need for a quick, reliable and anonymous OCR service (fax2html would be great).
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> 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.
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> 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 ).
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> So let me add OCR to the wish list :-)
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> //Erik
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