Cool TornadoFX Project of the Week: Textricator by Measures of Justice

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 to code for the betterment of humanity, but they are ALSO looking to hire Kotliners esp. in web backend (Javalin, maybe moving to  TornadoFX & Swing GUIs, scripting utilities, data processing, ML, & dev ops.

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