[Bug-ocrad] Ocrad support, form scanning, major media opportunity

[Matt Williamson]

I have a novel public policy trial
experiment for you.  The outcome is to establish
whether or not fraud is taking place in campaign
expenditures. 

Specifically, I am seeking to pull data out of a large
number of Senate race FEC filings that exist only in
scanned to .pdf image files and hence are impossible
to analyze at large scale. However, the data is
entered on a standard set of only about 5 different
forms...and for several fields has a reasonably
limited number of
standard entries.  This number of forms could  be
reduced to one manually if that would ease the job.

I would like to be able to pull out data from the form
fields and compile it into a database.  Do you have
any recommendations? Would Ocrad work for this
purpose? 

Any recommendations you have for using Ocrad or
any other product, commercial or otherwise, would be
greatly appreciated.

On your site you mention financial support for Ocrad.
I'm sure I could arrange for that if you can get this
job done in a couple days. Tall order I know, but
would have national implications and big media hit.

Sincerely,

Matt Williamson


 
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