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A GUI for extracting text from PDFs & generating CSVs/JSONs used to collect thousands of pages of data to assess and compare performance of the entire U.S. criminal justice system.
Project can be located here: https://github.com/measuresforjustice/textricator-gui
Not only does Measures for Justice uses #kotlin to code for the betterment of humanity, but they are ALSO looking to hire Kotliners esp. in web backend (Javalin, maybe moving to #ktor) TornadoFX & Swing GUIs, scripting utilities, data processing, ML, & dev ops.
For more info, see https://measuresforjustice.org/about/jobs/
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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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