Pork Trek II: The Wrath of Blogs
Yesterday I expressed my profound disappointment with the state senate’s obstruction of fiscal justice. “New Yorkers,” they seemed to be saying, “You can have our pork info in a usable format when you pry it from our cold, dead hands.”
RT reader Mikros replied in the comments:
So print it, scan it, and use OCR to convert it into searchable document.
I thought this was an oversimplification, and said so to him (her?):
In theory, sounds great. But for 3000 pages? Plus the fact that any of the OCR programs I’ve seen output raw, unformatted text, that are difficult at best to read. Plus the fact that OCR-ing usually requires some fixing up of misinterpreted text on each page. Times that by 3000.When the Senate could, in 5 minutes, send out a reasonable version.
If you want to check out the PDF, click here. It’s big, though — 76 fun-loving MegaBytes of pure, all-American, open-governmental love.
Great work, Albany Project! And motivated RT folks, check out your favorite Senator and let us know if you find anything interesting.
Many thanks and hat tip to wycats at The Albany Project.
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You guys are on fire! Way to rock the casbah!
Thanks for stopping by, NYBri, and good luck next election. You wouldn’t happen to have been featured in VegNews recently, would you?