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Re:Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using d... by jonathanyc on Saturday June 22, 2019 @11:54AM (#20250230)
> This project aimed to find out, and successfully extracted the easiest of the fields (total amount) at 90% accuracy using a relatively simple network.

Why does this page not even say what this field was? For all we know, OpenCV would have worked better.

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Re:Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using d... by oaeide on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:07PM (#20250300)
As it states, the field in question is "Total amount"
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