Re: irs

["Aaron Swartz" <xx@aaronsw.com>]

heh, poor guy. (dunno why he couldn't just send you a drive, tho)

glad to see the stuff showing up in Google; wondering how
machine-parseable the OCRed PDFs will be for the 501c3s. It looks like
Guidestar has people do data-entry by hand.

I'm currently trying to get BK to let me scan the personal financial
disclosures for members of congress as part of the kahle-omidyar
govdocs project; if we get those the plan is to mturk them.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote:
> irs says they sent me my 6 tbytes of data on dvds today.  took them 3 months
> to fill the order ... evidently there is some dude in utah who does all of
> these by himself and I screwed up his whole summer.
>
> guess I better figure out how to do a dvd jukebox or this is going to get
> old really quickly ... 1500 dvds to copy and run through ocr.  but, this is
> starting to work.  My 527 stuff is starting to show up in google:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22political+organization%22++site%3Abulk.resource.org
>
> Carl
>