Citizen provides improved access to digitized Senate intelligence committee report

VictorianMoss writes “Simson Garfinkel at MIT’s Technology Review was appalled at the digitization of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence‘s pre-war Iraq report, which was scanned in image-format. This, as you know, provides us with a document far larger and less usable than one can reasonably expect of a digital copy. As a result, Garfinkel has put together two OCR versions: one with the images, but made searchable by placing the text behind them, the other straight OCR, with some admitted and mostly typical errors. Both are smaller than the original.



See his blog for the PDFs and his comments on the matter.”

July 14, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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