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Re:Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using d... by sweeneyrod on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:18PM (#20265919)
Deep learning (and indeed any kind of machine learning) is really not necessary here. I wrote a very simple baseline that estimates the total gross amount as the biggest numerical value present (favouring ones that begin with a dollar sign and/or occur more than once). This achieves 93% accuracy (code is here https://gist.github.com/rlmacsween/166b7c1c1b0c5f466a0fe9b46...) in comparison to the 90% for the deep learning model.
Re:Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using d... by jonathanstray on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:46PM (#20266982)
Nice! An excellent baseline, something to beat.