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Crowdsourcing the Transcription of CIA Documents

posted by janrinok on Friday March 20 2015, @05:18AM   
from the whatever-happened-to-OCR? dept.

prospectacle writes:

The National Archives [USA] are asking for volunteers to transcribe thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents. To assist, you have to log in to the National Archives Catalog. The endeavour is part of Sunshine Week which is an open-government initiative, started by a group of newspaper editors, to educate people about the importance of government transparency and the dangers of excessive state secrecy.

You can browse some of the raw documents here.

• Re:I stumbled across this gem Re:I stumbled across this gem (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday March 20 2015, @11:31PM

  by krishnoid (1156) on Friday March 20 2015, @11:31PM (#160612)

  nuclear/biological ?
  012345789012345678

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• Re:I stumbled across this gem Re:I stumbled across this gem (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday March 20 2015, @11:35PM

  by krishnoid (1156) on Friday March 20 2015, @11:35PM (#160613)

  And I missed a number. How about:

  nuclear or chemical
  0123456789012345678

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  • Re:I stumbled across this gem (Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday March 21 2015, @10:40AM

    by deimtee (3272) on Saturday March 21 2015, @10:40AM (#160743) Journal

    If you look closely, there is the edge of a couple of descenders above the i and t in restricted.
    Could be g, j, p, q, or y.
    q and j are not visible in the document.
    The one above i doesn't seem to match g, p, or y. It is offset in a way that might match q, or it might be an artifact.
    The second one seems to be a y

    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ? _ y _ _ _ _ _

    The second body redaction is probably "facilities".

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