Re: [Jocr-devels] urgent OCR project idea with potential cash support

[Joerg <Joe...@UR...>]

The resolution of 14509.gif is to low. I cant even read it without 
guessing. May be you did some conversion to gif including lowering of 
resolution? 
Parsing can be done for such kind of forms, but I dont know If I can find 
time to make it in few days.

Joerg. 

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Matt Williamson wrote:

> OCR has role to play in current US election cycle. 
> There is serious concern that at least one Senatorial
> Candidate (Joe Lieberman) has campaign expenditures
> that *might* be fraudulent.  The data to show that it
> is at minimum unusual are publicly available and filed
> on standard forms but in scanned .pdf or gif images
> only. (An example of the type of form I would like to
> parse and scan is here
> http://images.nictusa.com/showimg/14509.gif).  Given
> that there are thousands of pages, the effort to
> process these forms, extract the data into an
> analyzable database in an unbiased fashion is all but
> impossiblqe to accomplish manually at this point.  Thus
> my hope for OCR.
> 
> I would like to be able to pull out data from the form
> fields and compile it into a database.  (The end
> result would be to compare line level expenditures of
> Senate candidates. At least one candidate has what
> looks to be a very unusual pattern).  Anyone have any
> recommendations? 
> 
> Any recommendations you have for using GOCR or
> any other product, commercial or otherwise, would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> I'm sure I could arrange for significant financial
> support for the project if this job could be done in a
> couple days. Tall order I know, but it would
> definitely create giant media buzz in the US and
> around the world for GOCR.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Matt Williamson